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The Barretstown Gang Camp Fund (UK) Limited

Registered · see notesRegistered charity number 1046648HertfordshireHealth and saving lives
Income£27k2025-12-31
Spending£114ksame year
Spent / received169%5-year average
Size in its cause43rd pctHealth and saving lives
Registered1995Charitable company
Employees–latest return

Analysis

The Barretstown Gang Camp Fund (UK) Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hertfordshire. It was registered in May 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and amateur sport, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03050570). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Barretstown Gang Camp Fund (UK) Limited reported income of £27k and spending of £114k, spending 421% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £71k to £27k (-62%), an average of -21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 385%. Over the whole period it spent 169% 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 Barretstown Gang Camp Fund (UK) Limited sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 43% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Astley Community Recreation (£27k), Manea Village Hall (£27k) and Western Wolds Men in Sheds (£27k).

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.

Income and spending

£0£29k£57k£86k£114k2021 Income: £71,1092021 Spending: £71,40320212022 Income: £1,5212022 Spending: £1,63520222023 Income: £4,8562023 Spending: £4,97020232024 Income: £23,5392024 Spending: £24,16420242025 Income: £27,1792025 Spending: £114,2922025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

Barretstown UK was established to primarily provide support services to children suffering from serious illness. It provides these services through Barretstown Ireland. Barretstown Ireland provides a psychosocial support programme to children and their families.

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