Fundraising Friends of Welton St Mary's Academy (Wsma)

Analysis

Fundraising Friends of Welton St Mary's Academy (Wsma) is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lincoln. It was registered in December 1991, 35 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under children and youth development. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Fundraising Friends of Welton St Mary's Academy (Wsma) reported income of £16k and spending of £13k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £3,760 to £16k (+328%), an average of +44% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 189%. Over the whole period it spent 76% of the income it received.

Among 5,641 England and Wales charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, Fundraising Friends of Welton St Mary's Academy (Wsma) sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Liphook Junior School (£16k), St Francis and Garden Suburb Community Association (£16k) and Friends of Nether Green (£16k).