A Call to Business

Analysis

A Call to Business is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cheshire. It was registered in November 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, religious activities and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04247153). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending July 2025, A Call to Business reported income of £161k and spending of £177k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income fell from £189k to £161k (-15%), an average of -3.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2024, when income rose by 239%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, A Call to Business sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Starview Charity (£161k), The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Winners Assembly Brixton (£161k) and Westborough United Reformed Church Charity (£161k).