Telecommunications Eastern European Challenge

Analysis

Telecommunications Eastern European Challenge is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Clacton-on-Sea. It was registered in March 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it provides other finance and provides human resources.

In the financial year ending November 2025, Telecommunications Eastern European Challenge reported income of £98k and spending of £109k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from November 2021 to November 2025, income grew from £38k to £98k (+155%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to November 2022, when income rose by 204%. Over the whole period it spent 115% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Telecommunications Eastern European Challenge sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hunstanton and District Food Bank (£98k), Alcohol Services Kingston & Richmond (£98k) and Philip O'donnell Charitable Trust (£98k).

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.