Overview
The Country Food Trust's network
6 people4 organisationsi6 listed on the board. 4 organisations share a board member with this charity.The large node is The Country Food Trust. The map shows two steps out from the public record. Hover a node to focus its connections; click one to open it.The board
6 listediCurrent trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.| Name | Role | Since | On the board |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rt Hon Sir Brandon Kenneth Lewis | Chair | 2025 | 1 yr |
| Amanda Skinner | Trustee | 2020 | 6 yrs |
| Andrew Stone | Trustee | 2016 | 10 yrs |
| Arthur Stephen Gillespie | Trustee | 2025 | 1 yr |
| Mark French | Trustee | 2023 | 3 yrs |
| Sir Charles Ashley Rupert Walker | Trustee | 2022 | 4 yrs |
Under 5 years5 to 6 years6 years or more
Subsidiaries
1 companyiEach company here has this charity named as an owner on the Companies House register of people with significant control (PSC).A charity is matched to a PSC entry by registration number, or by exact name and postcode. An entry that matches only by name (postcode differs) is marked likely. Names shared by several charities are never linked. Current directors are from Companies House.The Country Food Trust Ltd 10295009 Possible subsidiary Dissolved (likely) iLikely, not confirmed. The PSC entry's name matches the charity's name exactly, but the postcode differs (the PSC entry gives W1S 2XE) and no registration number is given.
Source: Companies House register of people with significant control.The PSC entry names The Country Food Trust as a corporate owner of this company, notified 25 July 2016. Matching is exact on names, numbers and postcodes; nothing is matched loosely.
Source: Companies House register of people with significant control.The PSC entry names The Country Food Trust as a corporate owner of this company, notified 25 July 2016. Matching is exact on names, numbers and postcodes; nothing is matched loosely.
Control: 75-100% of shares and votes, appoints directors (notified 25 July 2016)
Current directors
- No current directors (dissolved).
Source: Companies House register of people with significant control. Control levels are as filed by the company.
Board
The board
6 listediCurrent trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.| Name | Role | Since | On the board |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rt Hon Sir Brandon Kenneth Lewis | Chair | 2025 | 1 yr |
| Amanda Skinner | Trustee | 2020 | 6 yrs |
| Andrew Stone | Trustee | 2016 | 10 yrs |
| Arthur Stephen Gillespie | Trustee | 2025 | 1 yr |
| Mark French | Trustee | 2023 | 3 yrs |
| Sir Charles Ashley Rupert Walker | Trustee | 2022 | 4 yrs |
Under 5 years5 to 6 years6 years or more
Subsidiaries
1 companyiEach company here has this charity named as an owner on the Companies House register of people with significant control (PSC).A charity is matched to a PSC entry by registration number, or by exact name and postcode. An entry that matches only by name (postcode differs) is marked likely. Names shared by several charities are never linked. Current directors are from Companies House.The Country Food Trust Ltd 10295009 Possible subsidiary Dissolved (likely) iLikely, not confirmed. The PSC entry's name matches the charity's name exactly, but the postcode differs (the PSC entry gives W1S 2XE) and no registration number is given.
Source: Companies House register of people with significant control.The PSC entry names The Country Food Trust as a corporate owner of this company, notified 25 July 2016. Matching is exact on names, numbers and postcodes; nothing is matched loosely.
Source: Companies House register of people with significant control.The PSC entry names The Country Food Trust as a corporate owner of this company, notified 25 July 2016. Matching is exact on names, numbers and postcodes; nothing is matched loosely.
Control: 75-100% of shares and votes, appoints directors (notified 25 July 2016)
Current directors
- No current directors (dissolved).
Source: Companies House register of people with significant control. Control levels are as filed by the company.
Board DNA
iCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.Average tenure
4.2y
median 3.5y
Longest tenure
10y
since 2016
Years in governance
6.6y
per person, across all their boards
Also company directors
1
also sit on company boards
Joined in the last 3 years
3
of 6 on the board
6 trustees on the board
- Rt Hon Sir Brandon Kenneth Lewis Chair since 2025
- Andrew Stone since 2016
- Amanda Skinner since 2020
- Arthur Stephen Gillespie since 2025
- Mark French since 2023
- Sir Charles Ashley Rupert Walker since 2022
Trustees past 6 years
- Andrew Stone since 2016
- Amanda Skinner since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Amanda Skinner since 2020
- Arthur Stephen Gillespie since 2025
- Mark French since 2023
- Sir Charles Ashley Rupert Walker since 2022
Portfolio (2)
- Rt Hon Sir Brandon Kenneth Lewis Chair since 2025
- Andrew Stone since 2016
Sector coverageiThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
The Prevention or Relief of Poverty 6Education/training 2General Charitable Purposes 1
Commercial experienceiThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Arts and leisure 1Business services 1Education 1
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Network
Network
iThe large node is The Country Food Trust. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Dashed links are historical or inferred. Dashed blue-grey links are company secretaries. Click any node to explore.Most connected
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Finances
5 financial years held, 2021 to 2025, years ending 31 August.
Income and expenditure
5 years · years end 31 AugustiHover over the chart, or focus it and use the left and right arrow keys, to read each year. Every figure is also in the table.Plain-English summaries of the Charity Commission's own definitions for the annual return. Figures are as the charity filed them.Detailed income and expenditure are filed only by charities with income over £500,000, so some years show the totals only.
Scroll sideways for earlier years
| Financial year | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals | |||||
| Total income | £640.57k | £463.35k | £429.31k | £696.45k | £649.33k |
| Total expenditure | £698.58k | £602.02k | £416.00k | £711.08k | £596.98k |
| Government income | |||||
| Government contracts | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Government grants | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported |
| Income by source | |||||
| Donations and legacies | £640.45k | Not reported | Not reported | £356.96k | £554.84k |
| Legaciespart of donations and legacies | £0 | Not reported | Not reported | £0 | £0 |
| Charitable activities | £0 | Not reported | Not reported | £301.26k | £857 |
| Other trading activities | £112 | Not reported | Not reported | £173 | £0 |
| Investments | £0 | Not reported | Not reported | £0 | £0 |
| Endowments | £0 | Not reported | Not reported | £0 | £0 |
| Other income | £0 | Not reported | Not reported | £38.06k | £93.64k |
| Expenditure by type | |||||
| Charitable activities | £681.01k | Not reported | Not reported | £634.16k | £550.92k |
| Raising funds | £17.57k | Not reported | Not reported | £76.92k | £46.07k |
| Grants to institutionspart of charitable activities | £0 | Not reported | Not reported | £0 | £0 |
| Governance | £6.30k | Not reported | Not reported | £6.00k | £0 |
| Investment management | £0 | Not reported | Not reported | £0 | £0 |
| Other expenditure | £0 | Not reported | Not reported | £0 | £0 |
Definitions
- Total income
- Everything the charity received in the year, from all sources, as shown on its annual return.
- Total expenditure
- Everything the charity spent in the year.
- Government contracts
- Income from contracts with central or local government or other public bodies, as the charity declared it. Not reported means the register shows no amount (N/A), which can mean none or that the question was not answered.
- Government grants
- Grants received from central or local government or other public bodies, as declared.
- Donations and legacies
- Gifts and donations, including Gift Aid, and money left to the charity in wills.
- Legacies
- Money left to the charity in wills. Legacies are part of donations and legacies, not extra to them.
- Charitable activities (income)
- Income earned by doing the charity's work, such as fees and contracts for services.
- Other trading activities
- Fundraising trading, such as charity shops, events and sponsorship.
- Investments
- Dividends, interest and rent from the charity's investments.
- Endowments
- New endowment funds received in the year.
- Charitable activities (expenditure)
- Spending on the charity's purposes, including any grants it makes.
- Raising funds
- The cost of fundraising and trading.
- Grants to institutions
- Grants paid to other organisations. Part of spending on charitable activities.
- Governance
- The cost of running the charity as an organisation, such as the audit and trustee meetings.
- Investment management
- The cost of managing the charity's investments.
Source: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities (extract of 25 October 2026), annual returns, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Assets and liabilities
3 years with detailiHover over the chart, or focus it and use the left and right arrow keys, to read each year. Every figure is also in the table.Plain-English summaries of the Charity Commission's own definitions for the annual return. Figures are as the charity filed them.Scroll sideways for earlier years
| Financial year | 2021 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Own use assets | £2.26k | £1.26k | £504 |
| Long-term investments | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Other assets | £269.25k | £119.13k | £180.11k |
| Defined benefit pension schemea minus figure is a deficit | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Total liabilities | £20.30k | £21.69k | £17.05k |
| Net assetsassets minus liabilities | £251.21k | £98.71k | £163.56k |
Definitions
- Own use assets
- Land, buildings, equipment and other fixed assets the charity uses for its work.
- Long-term investments
- Investments held for the long term, such as shares, bonds or property let to others.
- Other assets
- Current assets: cash, money owed to the charity and short-term investments.
- Defined benefit pension scheme
- The surplus (above zero) or deficit (below zero) on a final-salary type pension scheme.
- Total liabilities
- What the charity owes: creditors due within a year and after a year, and provisions. Drawn below zero in the chart and shown as a positive figure in the table, as the register does.
- Net assets
- Assets minus liabilities, including any pension surplus or deficit. Equal to total funds.
Source: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities (extract of 25 October 2026), annual returns, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Funds and reserves
3 years with detailiHover over the chart, or focus it and use the left and right arrow keys, to read each year. Every figure is also in the table.Plain-English summaries of the Charity Commission's own definitions for the annual return. Figures are as the charity filed them.Scroll sideways for earlier years
| Financial year | 2021 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unrestricted funds | £251.21k | £98.71k | £134.56k |
| Restricted funds | £0 | £0 | £28.99k |
| Endowment funds | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Total funds | £251.21k | £98.71k | £163.56k |
| Reservesas declared by the charity | £251.21k | £97.45k | £177.86k |
| Assets besides buildingsinvestments, cash and money owed to it, before debts | £269.25k | £119.13k | £180.11k |
Definitions
- Unrestricted funds
- Money the trustees can spend on any of the charity's purposes, including funds they have set aside (designated) themselves.
- Restricted funds
- Money that must be spent on particular purposes set by the donor or the terms of an appeal.
- Endowment funds
- Capital the charity must keep, either permanently or until the terms allow it to be spent.
- Total funds
- All funds together. Equal to net assets.
- Reserves
- The charity's own figure for unrestricted funds that are freely available, after setting aside fixed assets and designated funds. Charities explain their reserves policy in their annual report.
- Assets besides buildings
- Long-term investments plus other assets (cash, money owed to the charity and short-term investments), before its debts are paid. If declared reserves are larger than this, they must include buildings.
Source: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities (extract of 25 October 2026), annual returns, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Accounts and annual returns
Register page (opens in a new tab)iPlain-English summaries of the Charity Commission's own definitions for the annual return. Figures are as the charity filed them.Reporting up to date
Every annual return and set of accounts arrived on time for 5 years.
| Year ending | Due by | Annual return | Accounts | Status | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2025 | 30 June 2026 | 31 March 2026 | 31 March 2026 | On time | On the register (opens in a new tab)Charity Commission |
| 31 August 2024 | 30 June 2025 | 10 March 2025 | 10 March 2025 | On time | On the register (opens in a new tab)Charity Commission |
| 31 August 2023 | 30 June 2024 | 22 December 2023 | 22 December 2023 | On time | On the register (opens in a new tab)Charity Commission |
| 31 August 2022 | 30 June 2023 | 31 January 2023 | 31 January 2023 | On time | On the register (opens in a new tab)Charity Commission |
| 31 August 2021 | 30 June 2022 | 22 December 2021 | 22 December 2021 | On time | On the register (opens in a new tab)Charity Commission |
Definitions
- Annual return
- The yearly return a charity sends to the Charity Commission. It is due 10 months after the end of the financial year. Charities with income over £10,000, and every CIO, must send one.
- Accounts
- The accounts and trustees' annual report. Required from charities with income over £25,000 and from every CIO; otherwise shown as Not required.
- On time
- Received on or before the due date.
- Late
- Received after the due date. The number of days is counted from the due date.
- Overdue
- Not received, and the due date has passed. Counted to today, or to the date a removed charity left the register.
- Qualified accounts
- The auditor or examiner raised a reservation about the accounts.
Source: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities (annual return history), Open Government Licence v3.0. The register keeps the latest five years; earlier years come from older copies we hold. Accounts documents link to the Charity Commission register. Days late and overdue are worked out from the dates, as of 30 October 2026.
Grants
Funding received
15 grantsiFrom grants published by funders to 360Giving. Not every funder publishes, so this is not a complete record of a charity's income.Grants awarded 27 March 2018 to 26 January 2026.Total from published grants
£289k
£289,000
Grants
15
published to 360Giving
Funders
13
distinct funders
Latest grant
Jan 2026
26 January 2026
By year
iBy year the grant was awarded, in pounds.£31k2018
£133k2020
£60k2022
£49k2023
£14k2025
£3k2026
Funders
13 funders| Funder | Grants | Total | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport | 1 | £100,000 | 2020 |
| CHK Foundation | 2 | £74,000 | 2022 to 2025 |
| The Clothworkers' Foundation | 1 | £31,000 | 2018 |
| Rothschild Foundation | 1 | £30,000 | 2023 |
| Essex Community Foundation | 2 | £21,000 | 2020 to 2023 |
| The Shears Foundation | 1 | £5,500 | 2023 |
| Devon Community Foundation | 1 | £5,000 | 2020 |
| Suffolk Community Foundation | 1 | £5,000 | 2020 |
| Sussex Community Foundation | 1 | £5,000 | 2020 |
| Hertfordshire Community Foundation | 1 | £5,000 | 2023 |
| Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation | 1 | £2,500 | 2023 |
| The Grocers' Charity | 1 | £2,500 | 2020 |
| The Aim Foundation | 1 | £2,500 | 2026 |
Grants
newest first| Date | Funder | Title | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 January 2026 | The Aim Foundation | Grant to Country Food Trust | £2,500 |
| 17 October 2025 | CHK Foundation | CHK Discretionary Grant | £14,000 |
| 26 September 2023 | Rothschild Foundation | Grant to The Country Food Trust | £30,000 |
| 11 May 2023 | Essex Community Foundation | The Country Food Trust | £6,000 |
| 7 March 2023 | Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation | Feeding People in Need during the cost of living crisis | £2,500 |
| 23 February 2023 | Hertfordshire Community Foundation | Feeding People in Need during the cost of living crisis | £5,000 |
| 23 January 2023 | The Shears Foundation | The Country Food Trust | £5,500 |
| 19 October 2022 | CHK Foundation | CHK Discretionary Grant | £60,000 |
| 23 October 2020 | Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport | Coronavirus Community Support Fund | £100,000 |
| 28 May 2020 | Devon Community Foundation | Grant to The Country Food Trust | £5,000 |
| 26 May 2020 | Sussex Community Foundation | Grant to Country Food Trust | £5,000 |
| 21 May 2020 | Suffolk Community Foundation | Covid-19 Response | £5,000 |
| 7 May 2020 | The Grocers' Charity | 2020 The Country Food Trust | £2,500 |
| 21 April 2020 | Essex Community Foundation | The Country Food Trust | £15,000 |
| 27 March 2018 | The Clothworkers' Foundation | Grant to The Country Food Trust | £31,000 |
Who published this data
Grant records are published by the funders named below to 360Giving, each under the open licence shown. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 where that licence is shown. Governance Register has reformatted the data, removed duplicate rows and matched recipients and funders to register records; it has not changed the amounts or dates published.
- CHK Foundation (2 grants) · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Essex Community Foundation (2 grants) · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Devon Community Foundation (1 grant) · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Suffolk Community Foundation (1 grant) · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Sussex Community Foundation (1 grant) · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation (1 grant) · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Rothschild Foundation (1 grant) · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Hertfordshire Community Foundation (1 grant) · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- The Shears Foundation (1 grant) · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- The Grocers' Charity (1 grant) · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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About
Purposes and governing document
Register page (opens in a new tab)Charitable objectsiAs filed with the Charity Commission. Clause breaks added for reading; the wording and capitals are unchanged.
THE
What it does
Who it helps
How it helps
- Where it operates
- Throughout England and Wales
- Governing document
- CIO
- Foundation Registered 16 Jul 2015 as filed - Register history
- 16 July 2015Registered as a charitable incorporated organisation
Policies the charity says it has
Source: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities (governing document, classification, area of operation, register history and policies), Open Government Licence v3.0.
About
- Website
- www.thecountryfoodtrust.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2015