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The Muscle Help Foundation

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1096716HampshireHealth and saving lives
Income£84k2025-02-28
Spending£88ksame year
Spent / received97%5-year average
Size in its cause60th pctHealth and saving lives
Registered2003Other
Employees–latest return

Analysis

The Muscle Help Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hampshire. It was registered in March 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it provides services and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending February 2025, The Muscle Help Foundation reported income of £84k and spending of £88k, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from February 2021 to February 2025, income fell from £138k to £84k (-39%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to February 2023, when income rose by 194%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Muscle Help Foundation sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cultivating Change (£84k), Age Concern (Banstead) (£84k) and Derby S a M E Appeal (£84k).

Income and spending

£0£34k£69k£103k£138k2021 Income: £137,6672021 Spending: £80,91420212022 Income: £30,2632022 Spending: £114,33120222023 Income: £88,8802023 Spending: £78,57220232024 Income: £128,3892024 Spending: £91,97220242025 Income: £83,5732025 Spending: £88,1672025
IncomeSpending

Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

Delivering Muscle Dreams for children and young people between the ages 8 and 28 with Muscular Dystrophy and allied neuromuscular conditions throughout the United Kingdom.

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Cultivating ChangeCambridge£84k
Age Concern (Banstead)Surrey£84k
Derby S a M E AppealDerby£84k
Halton Community AssociationLancaster£84k