Richmond Furniture Scheme

Analysis

Richmond Furniture Scheme is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Twickenham. It was registered in November 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 07001417). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Richmond Furniture Scheme reported income of £285k and spending of £300k, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £184k to £285k (+55%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Richmond Furniture Scheme sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mildmay Community Partnership (£285k), Life Link, Llandrindod (£285k) and Swan Youth Project (Norfolk) Ltd (£284k).