Grantham and District Poverty Concern Group

Analysis

Grantham and District Poverty Concern Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Grantham. It was registered in January 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Grantham and District Poverty Concern Group reported income of £35k and spending of £43k, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £52k to £35k (-31%), an average of -9.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Grantham and District Poverty Concern Group sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Mycro Trust (£35k), The BSW Foundation (£35k) and Girl Pack Milton Keynes (£35k).

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.