Educare Fund

Analysis

Educare Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Loughton. It was registered in July 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and other charitable purposes, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Educare Fund reported income of £20k and spending of £18k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £17k to £20k (+17%), an average of +3.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 81%. Over the whole period it spent 72% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Educare Fund sits at the 42nd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lakenheath Consolidated Charities (£20k), Cambodian Communities Out of Crisis (£20k) and St John's Hospital, Bakewell (£20k).