Raising Health

Analysis

Raising Health is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leicester. It was registered in August 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides buildings/facilities/open space and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Raising Health reported income of £345k and spending of £476k, spending 138% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £898k to £345k (-62%), an average of -21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 94%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Raising Health sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Tantum Trust (£345k), Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Charitable Funds (£345k) and Pulmonary Fibrosis Trust (£345k).