Elmore Community Services

Analysis

Elmore Community Services is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxford. It was registered in February 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04139974). It says it provides human resources, provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Elmore Community Services reported income of £2.6m and spending of £2.8m, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £1.3m to £2.6m (+96%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Elmore Community Services sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Ethnic Inclusion Foundation (£2.6m), Amna Refugee Healing Network CIO (£2.6m) and The Global Fund for Children UK Trust (£2.6m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 99%. Charitable activities took 98% of spending and raising funds 0.1%. Reserves of £1.2m would cover about 5 months of spending at that rate. It employed 68 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.