Friends of St Laurence Church Blackmore

Analysis

Friends of St Laurence Church Blackmore is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ingatestone. It was registered in April 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, arts/culture/heritage/science and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. It says it makes grants to organisations and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Friends of St Laurence Church Blackmore reported income of £25k and spending of £16k, leaving 38% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £30k to £25k (-15%), an average of -4.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 286%. Over the whole period it spent 31% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Friends of St Laurence Church Blackmore sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Trust (£25k), Beeston and District Civic Society (£25k) and Cleeve Prior War Memorial Village Hall (£25k).