Our Bolton NHS Charity

Analysis

Our Bolton NHS Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bolton. It was registered in November 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Our Bolton NHS Charity reported income of £191k and spending of £331k, spending 173% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £582k to £191k (-67%), an average of -24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 105%. Over the whole period it spent 122% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Our Bolton NHS Charity sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Susanna Peake Charitable Trust (£191k), Basingstoke Neighbourcare (£192k) and The William Arthur Rudd Memorial Trust (£190k).

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.