Hastings Sierra Leone Friendship Link

Analysis

Hastings Sierra Leone Friendship Link is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hastings. It was registered in December 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides human resources.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Hastings Sierra Leone Friendship Link reported income of £23k and spending of £16k, leaving 30% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £13k to £23k (+83%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 63%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Hastings Sierra Leone Friendship Link sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Voluntary Car Service (£23k), Holy Anointing Christian Centre (£23k) and Spalding Hospice Foundation (£23k).