Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit

Analysis

Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Reading. It was registered in March 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03626105). It says it provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit reported income of £172k and spending of £182k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £130k to £172k (+32%), an average of +7.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Reading Community Welfare Rights Unit 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 Open Doors Project (Hull) (£172k), Cambridge Community Arts (£172k) and Hidaya Foundation (£172k).