Fellowship Afloat Charitable Trust

Analysis

Fellowship Afloat Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Maldon. It was registered in November 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability, overseas aid/famine relief and religious activities, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03264887). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Fellowship Afloat Charitable Trust reported income of £755k and spending of £814k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £698k to £755k (+8.1%), an average of +2.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Fellowship Afloat Charitable Trust sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bristol Rugby Community Foundation (£755k), Caritas Diocese of Shrewsbury (£755k) and The McCarthy & Stone Charitable Foundation (£754k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 47%, donations and legacies 35% and trading 17%. Charitable activities took 97% of spending and raising funds 3.1%. Reserves of £75k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate. It employed 22 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.