Lifting the Burden

Analysis

Lifting the Burden is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in July 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover 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 06943628). It says it provides other finance, provides advocacy/advice/information and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Lifting the Burden reported income of £22k and spending of £38k, spending 173% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £9 to £22k (+242000%), an average of +602% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 46778%. Over the whole period it spent 278% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Lifting the Burden sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 39% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The African Palms Association (£22k), Sage (Staffordshire) (£22k) and Miss Summers and Miss May's Charitable Settlement (£22k).

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.