New Forest Keepers Widows Fund

Analysis

New Forest Keepers Widows Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lyndhurst. It was registered in January 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending April 2026, New Forest Keepers Widows Fund reported income of £15k and spending of £14k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2026, income grew from £11k to £15k (+42%), an average of +9.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 127867%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, New Forest Keepers Widows Fund sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Standish Community Centre (£15k), Kasisi Children's Home (£15k) and The Football League Jubilee Benevolent Fund (£15k).