Paper Boat

Analysis

Paper Boat is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Coventry. It was registered in November 1991, 35 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 02661333). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2026, Paper Boat reported income of £28k and spending of £132k, spending 474% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income fell from £496k to £28k (-94%), an average of -51% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 82%. Over the whole period it spent 122% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Paper Boat sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include City of London School War Memorial Fund (£28k), Victory Christian Centre Assemblies of God - Slough (£28k) and River of Life Church (£28k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.