Gap Ministries

Analysis

Gap Ministries is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ashton-Under-Lyne. It was registered in September 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and accommodation/housing, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Gap Ministries reported income of £76k and spending of £71k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £60k to £76k (+27%), an average of +6.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Gap Ministries sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council for the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Margaret's, Whalley Range (£76k), Grace Wyndham Goldie (BBC) Trust Fund (£76k) and Give a Child a Hope (£76k).