Lincoln City Foundation

Analysis

Lincoln City Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lincoln. It was registered in March 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and amateur sport, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06608600). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Lincoln City Foundation reported income of £1.7m and spending of £1.6m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £974k to £1.7m (+77%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Lincoln City Foundation sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (£1.7m), Cerebral Palsy Cymru (£1.7m) and Level Water (£1.7m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 80%, trading 12%, donations and legacies 6.6% and investments 1.2%. Charitable activities took 98% of spending and raising funds 0.8%. Reserves of £296k would cover about 2 months of spending at that rate. It employed 59 people.