The Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation

Analysis

The Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Rotherham. It was registered in December 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. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation reported income of £1.4m and spending of £5.1m, spending 372% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £2.9m to £1.4m (-52%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 186% 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 Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Association of British Members of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta (£1.4m), The Loseley Christian Trust (£1.4m) and Kettering Association for Mental Health (£1.4m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 43%, investments 37% and trading 12%. Charitable activities took 67% of spending and raising funds 2.3%. Grants to other organisations totalled £176k. Reserves of £3.2m would cover about 7 months of spending at that rate. It employed 60 people.

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.