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Registered charity (CIO) · Manchester

The Bread and Butter Thing.

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £7.8m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England
Website
breadandbutterthing.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.8m£6.9m
  • 2024£6.8m£6.0m
  • 2023£5.4m£4.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.7m£2.7m
  • 2021£2.2m£1.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 17%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A. THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONG PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN THE UK FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH, OR WITH ACCESS TO, GOODS, SERVICES AND/OR FUNDS WITHOUT A POVERTY PREMIUM WHICH THEY COULD NOT OBTAIN ACCESS TO THROUGH LACK OF MEANS AND/OR AS A RESULT OF THEIR SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL EXCLUSION FROM SOCIETY AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; POOR EDUCATION OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY). B. THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION OF FOOD WASTE AND FAST MOVING CONSUMER GOODS WASTE REDUCTION BY REDISTRIBUTING GOODS TO PEOPLE IN LOW INCOME HOUSEHOLDS. C. THE PROMOTION OF GOOD HEALTH AND NUTRITION BY PROVIDING AFFORDABLE ACCESS TO, AND SUPPLYING, A HEALTHY AND BALANCED DIET AND PROVIDING ADVICE AND EDUCATION ON A HEALTHY AND BALANCED DIET. D. ANY OTHER OBJECTS WHICH ARE CONSIDERED TO BE CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Grants received

14 grants · £5,640,016 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.

Top funders

  • Comic Relief · £5,040,000 (6 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £316,496 (2 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £110,000
  • CAF · £94,100
  • The Clothworkers Foundation · £50,000

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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.

9 trustees on the board

2.8y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

1
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 9The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 9The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 8General 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.

Other services 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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£7.8m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

1.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 5.0 in 2021

70 from 23 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1169383
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 27 SEP 2016AMENDED ON 15 AUG 2017
Contact on the register
0333 004 0287 · hello@breadandbutterthing.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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