Workaid

Analysis

Workaid is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Chesham. It was registered in October 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, overseas aid/famine relief and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 02576450). It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Workaid reported income of £525k and spending of £553k, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £405k to £525k (+30%), an average of +6.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 107% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Workaid sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The United Charities of Abel Collin (£525k), Merseyside Law Centre Limited (£525k) and Providence Marian Company (£525k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 49%, donations and legacies 47%, trading 2.2% and investments 1.0%. Charitable activities took 87% of spending and raising funds 13%. Reserves of £20k would cover about 0 months of spending at that rate. It employed 9 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.