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First Love Foundation Limited

First Love Foundation Limited is a registered charity (number 1137819) based in London, governed by 4 trustees. Latest income £693k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as Tower Hamlets Foodbank (Charity Commission)

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £693k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities and 3 more
Where
Throughout London
Website
www.firstlovefoundation.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
First Love Foundation LTD
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£693k£761k
  • 2024£616k£782k
  • 2023£876k£749k
Earlier years
  • 2022£567k£696k
  • 2021£977k£648k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 2% · Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. TO RELIEVE POVERTY;2. TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY SUPPORTING PEOPLE IN MATTERS RELATING TO THEIR AGE, GENDER, RACE, DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES; WHERE THEY ARE EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY;3. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, TRAINING AND RETRAINING AMONG UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE;4. TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.

Grants received

14 grants · £619,914 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

4 trustees on the board

1.2y median 1y
average tenure
2y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
1.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

4
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 4General Charitable Purposes 4The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 4

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 4

Gaps to watch

  • Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£693k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

2.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

7 from 11 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
6%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1137819
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 17 MARCH 2010
Companies House
Company number 07193272 · Active
Contact on the register
020 3069 9877 · info@firstlovefoundation.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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