Mountbatten Hampshire Limited

Analysis

Mountbatten Hampshire Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Southampton. It was registered in March 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06539641). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Mountbatten Hampshire Limited reported income of £8.7m and spending of £8.9m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £7.4m to £8.7m (+18%), an average of +4.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Mountbatten Hampshire Limited sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Cinnamon Trust (£8.7m), Saint Catherine's Hospice Trust (£8.8m) and Hospice of St Francis (Berkhamsted) Ltd (£8.7m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 55%, donations and legacies 29% and trading 13%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £1.1m. Charitable activities took 81% of spending and raising funds 18%. Reserves of £162k would cover about 0 months of spending at that rate. It employed 190 people.

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.