Sustainability Partners

Analysis

Sustainability Partners is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Southampton. It was registered in May 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, environment/conservation/heritage and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Sustainability Partners reported income of £14k and spending of £17k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £30k to £14k (-53%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income dropped by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Sustainability Partners sits at the 38th percentile: it is larger than about 38% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The MK Charitable Trust (£14k), Martha House Association (£14k) and Iqra Aid Trust (£14k).