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East of London Family History Society

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1094419Collier RowEnvironment and conservation
Income£31k2025-08-31
Spending£19ksame year
Spent / received91%5-year average
Size in its cause65th pctEnvironment and conservation
Registered2002Other
Employees–latest return

Analysis

East of London Family History Society is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Collier Row. It was registered in October 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under environment and conservation. It says it sponsors or undertakes research and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending August 2025, East of London Family History Society reported income of £31k and spending of £19k, leaving 40% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £18k to £31k (+73%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2025, when income rose by 76%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, East of London Family History Society sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mount Pleasant School Farm (£31k), Dyffryn Tanat Young Farmers' Club (£31k) and Pitstone and Ivinghoe Museum Society (£31k).

Income and spending

£0£7,692£15k£23k£31k2021 Income: £17,7412021 Spending: £17,34520212022 Income: £19,0332022 Spending: £24,52520222023 Income: £18,8022023 Spending: £17,40720232024 Income: £17,4922024 Spending: £16,42820242025 Income: £30,7662025 Spending: £18,5672025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

To promote and encourage the study of family history amongst those living in or having ancestral links with that area of Greater London north of the Thames extending from the edge of the City of London at Bishopsgate and Aldgate, eastwards through the London Borough of Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Newham, Redbridge and Dagenham, to the edge of Metropolitan Essex at Havering.

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Mount Pleasant School FarmBirmingham£31k
Dyffryn Tanat Young Farmers' ClubOswestry£31k
Pitstone and Ivinghoe Museum SocietyBedfordshire£31k
The William Fowler Working Men's AllotmentsOxon£31k