The Chicken Soup Shelter

Analysis

The Chicken Soup Shelter is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in uk. It was registered in July 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Chicken Soup Shelter reported income of £793k and spending of £877k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £897k to £793k (-12%), an average of -3.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Chicken Soup Shelter sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Life Trust (£793k), Withy Trees Welfare & Education (£794k) and Institute of Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, Otherwise Salesian Sisters of St John Bosco (£792k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 100%. Charitable activities took 100% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Grants to other organisations totalled £31k. Reserves of £150k would cover about 2 months of spending at that rate. It employed 6 people.