WECAN - We Enable Children with Additional Needs

Analysis

WECAN - We Enable Children with Additional Needs is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Northumberland. It was registered in July 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover disability, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06384156). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending October 2025, WECAN - We Enable Children with Additional Needs reported income of £152k and spending of £159k, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income grew from £79k to £152k (+92%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2022, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, WECAN - We Enable Children with Additional Needs sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Wakefield District Sight Aid (£152k), Tewkesbury Foodbank (£152k) and Ruxley Church (£151k).

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.