Human Relief Foundation

Analysis

Human Relief Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in West Yorkshire. It was registered in October 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06195282). It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Human Relief Foundation reported income of £4.8m and spending of £6.1m, spending 128% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £10.2m to £4.8m (-53%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 46%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Human Relief Foundation sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include United St Saviour's Charity (£4.7m), Green Lane Masjid and Community Centre (£4.8m) and Stonewall Equality Limited (£4.7m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 60%, charitable activities 27%, trading 11% and investments 1.7%. Charitable activities took 81% of spending and raising funds 9.2%. Grants to other organisations totalled £3.7m. Reserves of £654k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate. It employed 89 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.