Upendo UK

Analysis

Upendo UK is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in West Midlands. It was registered in March 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Upendo UK reported income of £24k and spending of £35k, spending 148% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £27k to £24k (-9.9%), an average of -2.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Upendo UK sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Christ's Hope International UK (£24k), Morriston-Davies Settlement in Connection with the British Thoracic Association (£24k) and Ipswich Hindu Samaj (£24k).

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.