Registered charity (CIO) · London
Critical Support
- 5 trustees
- Income £592k (2025)
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, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Where
- Throughout England
- Registered
- 2023
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£592k£543k
- 2024£520k£489k
Income trend, 2024 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE RELIEF OR PREVENTION OF POVERTY AMONGST PEOPLE IN LONDON OR IN OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ABROAD IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME-TO-TIME THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) WORKING WITH SUPERMARKETS AND ORGANISATIONS TO PROMOTE FOOD-WASTE REDUCTION, BY FACILITATING THE COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO PEOPLE SUFFERING FOOD POVERTY;B) PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD, HOUSEHOLD ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN NEED;C) PROVIDING TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN NEED WITH A FOCUS ON, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, REFUGEES IN NEED FROM UKRAINE; ANDD) SUCH OTHER MEANS, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT OR SIGNPOSTING TO RELEVANT INFORMATION AND OTHER ADVISORY SERVICES AND THE SUPPORT OF OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO RELIEVE OR PREVENT POVERTY AND HARDSHIP.
Grants received
2 grants · £24,574 total360Giving 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
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £15,000
- The Wimbledon Foundation · £9,574
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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.
5 trustees on the board
- Niall Barrett Chair since 2022
- Anton Truter since 2022
- Demelza Jones since 2022
- Janneke Diemel since 2022
- Leonie Cooper since 2025
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Niall Barrett Chair since 2022
- Anton Truter since 2022
- Demelza Jones since 2022
- Janneke Diemel since 2022
- Leonie Cooper since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
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
1.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 0.3 in 2024
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1202137
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 01 Mar 2023
- Contact on the register
- 07956474030 · Janneke@criticalnhs.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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