Local Aid for Children and Community Special Needs

Analysis

Local Aid for Children and Community Special Needs is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Swansea. It was registered in June 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04734267). It says it provides human resources and provides services.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Local Aid for Children and Community Special Needs reported income of £276k and spending of £276k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £169k to £276k (+63%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Local Aid for Children and Community Special Needs sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St Bega Charitable Trust (£276k), The Pirate Castle (£276k) and ADHD North West (£276k).

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.