Fairshare Educational Foundation

Analysis

Fairshare Educational Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in December 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05013662). It says it provides services, provides advocacy/advice/information and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending January 2026, Fairshare Educational Foundation reported income of £6.4m and spending of £7.1m, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from January 2022 to January 2026, income grew from £3.6m to £6.4m (+77%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to January 2023, when income rose by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Fairshare Educational Foundation sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Salford Community & Voluntary Services (£6.4m), The Apostolic Church (£6.4m) and Groundwork Yorkshire Limited (£6.3m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 67%, donations and legacies 28%, trading 3.2% and investments 1.2%. Charitable activities took 92% of spending and raising funds 7.2%. Grants to other organisations totalled £76k. Reserves of £1.5m would cover about 3 months of spending at that rate. It employed 92 people.