Bereft

Analysis

Bereft is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in August 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Bereft reported income of £64k and spending of £66k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £51k to £64k (+25%), an average of +5.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 64%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Bereft sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Oxfordshire Breastfeeding Support (£64k), Briess Family Charitable Trust (£64k) and The Roman Catholic Congregation of the Missionary Franciscan Sisters (Of the Immaculate Conception )(Braintree) Charitable Trust (£64k).

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.