Eastside Community Heritage

Analysis

Eastside Community Heritage is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in September 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03509623). It says it provides human resources and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Eastside Community Heritage reported income of £173k and spending of £208k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £125k to £173k (+39%), an average of +8.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 285%. Over the whole period it spent 122% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Eastside Community Heritage sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Stuart Young Foundation (£173k), Barham Benevolent Foundation (£173k) and Chaim Charitable Company Limited (£173k).

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.