Saffron Dean Community Association

Analysis

Saffron Dean Community Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bradford. It was registered in December 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, environment/conservation/heritage and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03103381). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides human resources.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Saffron Dean Community Association reported income of £21k and spending of £25k, spending 119% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £661 to £21k (+3103%), an average of +138% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 744%. Over the whole period it spent 427% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Saffron Dean Community Association 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 46th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Relief for All (£21k), Radha Kripa Trust (£21k) and Ugandan Childrens Educational Support Trust (£21k).

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.