Community Action Network

Analysis

Community Action Network is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Dorset. It was registered in June 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04024662). It says it provides services, provides advocacy/advice/information and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Community Action Network reported income of £1.0m and spending of £3.0m, spending 297% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £553k to £1.0m (+84%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 830%. Over the whole period it spent 77% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Community Action Network sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Sanita Merali Trust (£1.0m), TBF Trust (£1.0m) and The London Pathway (£1.0m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 93%. Charitable activities took 100% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Grants to other organisations totalled £1.5m. Reserves of £51k would cover about 0 months of spending at that rate. It employed 30 people.

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.