Plymouth & Devon Racial Equality Council

Analysis

Plymouth & Devon Racial Equality Council is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Plymouth. It was registered in February 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03827654). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Plymouth & Devon Racial Equality Council reported income of £203k and spending of £252k, spending 124% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £142k to £203k (+43%), an average of +9.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Plymouth & Devon Racial Equality Council sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Skelmersdale and District Foodbank (£203k), Omid Foundation (£203k) and Darul Jannah Trust and Stratford Muslim Centre Limited (£203k).