Benchill Community Centre

Analysis

Benchill Community Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Manchester. It was registered in August 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Benchill Community Centre reported income of £369k and spending of £278k, leaving 25% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £196k to £369k (+88%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Benchill Community Centre sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Happold Foundation (£369k), Jubilee Church Farnham (£369k) and Peterborough Citizens Advice Bureau (£369k).