Community Impact Bucks

Analysis

Community Impact Bucks is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Buckinghamshire. It was registered in June 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, accommodation/housing, environment/conservation/heritage and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under housing and shelter. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03508718). It says it makes grants to organisations, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Community Impact Bucks reported income of £617k and spending of £712k, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £588k to £617k (+4.9%), an average of +1.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 2,324 England and Wales charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, Community Impact Bucks sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cambridge Women's Aid (£605k), Norton Folgate Almshouse Charities (£621k) and Benenden Almshouse Charities (£598k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 99%. Charitable activities took 83% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £173k would cover about 2 months of spending at that rate. It employed 14 people.