The Woking Community Furniture Project

Analysis

The Woking Community Furniture Project is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Surrey. It was registered in November 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03254585). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Woking Community Furniture Project reported income of £170k and spending of £155k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £166k to £170k (+2.0%), an average of +0.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Woking Community Furniture Project sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mustard Seed Ministries (£170k), Barnabas Community Projects (£170k) and Nightwatch (£169k).