The Good Shepherd Project

Analysis

The Good Shepherd Project is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in West Yorkshire. It was registered in June 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides human resources and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Good Shepherd Project reported income of £31k and spending of £26k, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £31k to £31k (-0.5%), an average of -0.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Good Shepherd Project sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Georgian Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Great Britain (£31k), Bradford Cinderella Club (£31k) and Corton Poor's Land Trust (£31k).