Sprouts Community Food Charity

Analysis

Sprouts Community Food Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cleveland. It was registered in April 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and disability, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending September 2025, Sprouts Community Food Charity reported income of £150k and spending of £172k, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income fell from £173k to £150k (-13%), an average of -3.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income dropped by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Sprouts Community Food Charity sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Hands Up Project (£150k), Harefield Parochial Charities (£150k) and Whitby, Scarborough and Ryedale Disability Action Group (£150k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.