Aspire Community Enterprise (Sheffield) Limited

Analysis

Aspire Community Enterprise (Sheffield) Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sheffield. It was registered in October 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04137726). It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Aspire Community Enterprise (Sheffield) Limited reported income of £234k and spending of £258k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £145k to £234k (+61%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Aspire Community Enterprise (Sheffield) Limited sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include King's Church (Milton Keynes) (£233k), Living Word Community Church (£234k) and Misgov Ladoch (£233k).