Vascroft Foundation

Analysis

Vascroft Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Coronation Road. It was registered in August 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it sponsors or undertakes research and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Vascroft Foundation reported income of £24k and spending of £247k, spending 1049% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £11k to £24k (+111%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 4478%. Over the whole period it spent 152% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Vascroft Foundation sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hartlepool Sea Cadets (£24k), Penkridge Sports & Recreation Centre(Monckton) (£24k) and Treverbyn Parish Community Fund (£24k).

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.