Wisbech Community Development Trust

Analysis

Wisbech Community Development Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cambridgeshire. It was registered in November 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, amateur sport and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04329558). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending February 2025, Wisbech Community Development Trust reported income of £136k and spending of £175k, spending 129% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from February 2021 to February 2025, income fell from £142k to £136k (-4.3%), an average of -1.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to February 2024, when income rose by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 117% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Wisbech Community Development Trust sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Physiotherapy Benevolent Fund (£136k), The Mercian Regiment Benevolent Charity (£136k) and Cambridge Aid (£135k).

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.