Tools with a Mission

Analysis

Tools with a Mission is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ipswich. It was registered in July 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05114575). It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Tools with a Mission reported income of £1.3m and spending of £1.2m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £653k to £1.3m (+104%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 74%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Tools with a Mission sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include British Youth for Christ (£1.3m), Settle Support (£1.3m) and Jay Education Trust (£1.3m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 67%, trading 21% and charitable activities 11%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £478k. Charitable activities took 92% of spending and raising funds 5.3%. Grants to other organisations totalled £6,000. Reserves of £300k would cover about 3 months of spending at that rate. It employed 13 people.