Provide a Meal

Analysis

Provide a Meal is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in 3 Acorn Business Centre. It was registered in January 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 11772942). It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Provide a Meal reported income of £59k and spending of £68k, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2020 to June 2025, income grew from £5,667 to £59k (+944%), an average of +80% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 413%. Over the whole period it spent 130% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Provide a Meal sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Watershed Riding for the Disabled Association Incorporating Carriage Driving (£59k), Bumble Hole Conservation Group (£59k) and Newbury Lions Club (CIO) (£59k).

Data notes from the register: The latest annual return was received after its deadline. Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.