Helping Point UK

Analysis

Helping Point UK is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in June 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides human resources and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Helping Point UK reported income of £27k and spending of £31k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £18k to £27k (+47%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2025, when income rose by 67%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Helping Point UK sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Barnet Borough Sight Impaired (£26k), The Association of Friends of Connaught Court (£27k) and British Congenital Cardiac Association (£26k).