Chat Children's Respite

Analysis

Chat Children's Respite is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Aylesbury. It was registered in December 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 makes grants to individuals and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending March 2026, Chat Children's Respite reported income of £36k and spending of £47k, spending 128% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income grew from £24k to £36k (+54%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 377%. Over the whole period it spent 118% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Chat Children's Respite sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Province of Cambridgeshire Charity for Care and Relief (£36k), Health Care 4 All International (Hc4ai) (£37k) and Appleby Frodingham Railway-Scunthorpe (£36k).

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.