The Booth Centre

Analysis

The Booth Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Manchester. It was registered in June 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2026, The Booth Centre reported income of £1.5m and spending of £1.3m, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income grew from £893k to £1.5m (+72%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Booth Centre sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Mary Kinross Charitable Trust (£1.5m), South Derbyshire CVS (£1.5m) and The Association for Perioperative Practice (£1.5m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 75%, donations and legacies 19% and trading 6.5%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £24k. Charitable activities took 89% of spending and raising funds 11%. Reserves of £578k would cover about 5 months of spending at that rate. It employed 21 people.