Advanced Life Support Group

Analysis

Advanced Life Support Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Manchester. It was registered in January 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04580873). It says it provides services, sponsors or undertakes research and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Advanced Life Support Group reported income of £2.2m and spending of £2.2m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £1.5m to £2.2m (+46%), an average of +9.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Advanced Life Support Group sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Grammar School of King Edward VI at Stratford-Upon-Avon (£2.2m), Liverpool John Moores University Students' Union (£2.3m) and The St Andrew's School Trust (£2.2m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 98% and investments 1.7%. Charitable activities took 96% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £920k would cover about 5 months of spending at that rate. It employed 22 people.