The Chaya Reizel Hirsch Memorial Fund Ltd

Analysis

The Chaya Reizel Hirsch Memorial Fund Ltd is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Salford. It was registered in October 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, 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 company (Companies House number 06308281). It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending January 2025, The Chaya Reizel Hirsch Memorial Fund Ltd reported income of £178k and spending of £231k, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2020 to January 2025, income grew from £126k to £178k (+41%), an average of +9.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2021, when income rose by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 253% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Chaya Reizel Hirsch Memorial Fund Ltd sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Westminster Bangladeshi Welfare Trust (WBWT) (£178k), The League of Friends of the Newton Abbot Hospitals (£178k) and Legend on the Bench (£178k).

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.