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Registered charity · London

The BOW Foodbank Limited

The relief of poverty in Tower Hamlets and neighbouring boroughs in London through access to food and essential items; advocacy and advice for people in Tower Hamlets and neighbouring boroughs in London to support long-term, permanent relief of...

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £782k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Tower Hamlets
Website
www.bowfoodbank.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The BOW Foodbank Limited
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£782k£831k
  • 2024£887k£894k
  • 2023£809k£670k
Earlier years
  • 2022£523k£579k
  • 2021£1.1m£646k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

The relief of poverty in Tower Hamlets and neighbouring boroughs in London through access to food and essential items; advocacy and advice for people in Tower Hamlets and neighbouring boroughs in London to support long-term, permanent relief of poverty; and the advancement of education related to factors contributing to poverty in Tower Hamlets and neighbouring boroughs in London.

Grants received

10 grants · £248,700 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.

2.8y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

11
company-linked trustees

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

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 11Education/training 1General Charitable Purposes 1

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

Finance 12Health and social care 12Education 1

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£782k 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.

6.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 8.7 in 2021

20
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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1162185
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20 JAN 2014 as amended on 16 Dec 2024
Companies House
Company number 08852728 · Active
Contact on the register
07305103479 · info@bowfoodbank.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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