Regents Park Time Bank

Analysis

Regents Park Time Bank is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in December 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, arts/culture/heritage/science and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05309600). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Regents Park Time Bank reported income of £30k and spending of £32k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £38k to £30k (-21%), an average of -5.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Regents Park Time Bank sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 52nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Articulate Arts Ltd (£30k), Ala Yaseen (£30k) and Shanti Nepali Samaj Belayat (£30k).

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.