Registered charity · London
City Harvest
- 9 trustees
- Income £4.3m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Paul Freeston OBEChair · since 2024
- Bernadette GilbertTrustee · since 2025
- Christopher RalphTrustee · since 2024
- Duncan EverettTrustee · since 2024
- Emma GeraldTrustee · since 2023
- Patrick Street BA, JDTrustee · since 2020
- Shaun BrowneTrustee · since 2023
- Stephen WinninghamTrustee · since 2024
- Todd Brooks BenjaminTrustee · since 2019
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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 1 more
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.cityharvest.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- City Harvest
- Registered
- 2015
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£4.3m£5.2m
- 2024£4.1m£4.0m
- 2023£3.7m£3.5m
Earlier years
- 2022£2.9m£2.9m
- 2021£5.3m£2.0m
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, ALL PURPOSES WHICH ARE RECOGNISED AS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF EVERY PART OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, INCLUDING:- THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY;- THE ADVANCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT;- THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EFFECTIVE USE OF RESOURCES FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES BY CHARITIES, NGOS AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS;- THE PROVISION OF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES TO WAR VETERANS TO SUPPORT THEIR RE-SETTLEMENT INTO CIVILIAN LIFE,IN PARTICULAR (WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY FACILITATING THE DISTRIBUTION OF SURPLUS FOOD AND DONATIONS OF FOOD FROM RESTAURANTS, MANUFACTURERS AND RETAILERS TO THOSE EXPERIENCING FOOD POVERTY.
Board analysis for researchers
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Paul Freeston OBE Chair since 2024
- Bernadette Gilbert since 2025
- Christopher Ralph since 2024
- Duncan Everett since 2024
- Emma Gerald since 2023
- Patrick Street BA, JD since 2020
- Shaun Browne since 2023
- Stephen Winningham since 2024
- Todd Brooks Benjamin since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Patrick Street BA, JD since 2020
- Todd Brooks Benjamin since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Paul Freeston OBE Chair since 2024
- Bernadette Gilbert since 2025
- Christopher Ralph since 2024
- Duncan Everett since 2024
- Emma Gerald since 2023
- Shaun Browne since 2023
- Todd Brooks Benjamin since 2019
Portfolio (2)
- Patrick Street BA, JD since 2020
- Stephen Winningham since 2024
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
0.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.2 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1163055
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 04/08/2015
- Companies House
- Company number 08986929 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 0207 041 8491 · info@cityharvest.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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