Surplus to Supper Trust

Registered charity 1189230 · since 2020·Greater London, Surrey·Updated 29 October 2026

Key takeaways

Surplus to Supper Trust's work fits a small nonprofit whose project is about food, since it collects surplus food and distributes it free to schools, charities and individuals in need in Surrey and London, its stated geographic focus.
The annual report gives no grant range or annual giving figure, so it does not show what size of request is typical, and a grant writer should ask the trust directly.
No application process is published in the annual report or on its register entry, so the sensible first step is to use the contact shown and ask how to proceed before writing a full proposal.
Nothing published about the trust says how competitive or relationship-led funding is, or when it considers requests, so these questions are worth raising in that first contact.

Overview

Surplus to Supper Trust is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1189230).

Surplus to Supper Trust works locally to bridge the gap between food waste and food poverty. It takes good-quality surplus food from across the food industry and distributes it free to local schools, charities and individuals in need because of ill health, disability, hardship or social circumstances. The trust says it currently supports 150 front line charities, schools, disability and elderly charities and provides meals for a minimum of 3,000 families a week.

What they fund

Profile based on the charity's Charity Commission register entry and annual report only: no website or other web source for the charity was found. Every statement is checked against them. Sources read on 25 October 2026.

Priority Areas

The trust works locally to bridge the gap between food waste and food poverty. It takes good-quality surplus food from across the food industry and distributes it to local schools, charities and individuals in need because of ill health, disability, hardship or social circumstances. It also works with front-line teams to ease pressure on them by providing culturally relevant and nutritious meals. Its approach is to collect food with no commercial value and distribute it free of charge, supporting vulnerable people through local charities and community organisations.

Themes

Food poverty relief
Food waste reduction
Surplus food distribution

Geographic Focus

Surrey; London.

How to apply

No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry or other pages about it. The contact shown is for getting in touch.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Greater London
Surrey

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Surplus to Supper Trust.

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Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 March 2021	£129,843	£97,202	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2021
year to 31 March 2022	£168,685	£159,546	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2022
year to 31 March 2023	£296,557	£234,042	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2023
year to 31 March 2024	£290,427	£261,414	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2024
year to 31 March 2025	£296,410	£304,393	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2025

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.