Blaze Community Foundation

Analysis

Blaze Community Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sheffield. It was registered in January 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06761673). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Blaze Community Foundation reported income of £36k and spending of £36k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £68k to £36k (-47%), an average of -15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 60%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Blaze Community Foundation sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gulu Mission Initiative (£36k), The Sunflower Fellowship Romania (£36k) and North Gwent Cardiac Rehabilitation and Aftercare (£36k).