The Vintners' Foundation

Analysis

The Vintners' Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in November 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Vintners' Foundation reported income of £466k and spending of £488k, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £475k to £466k (-1.9%), an average of -0.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Vintners' Foundation sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Edmund Rice Bicentennial Trust Limited (£466k), Institute of Alcohol Studies (£466k) and Public Health Register (£466k).

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.