The Family and Community Network

Analysis

The Family and Community Network is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Suffolk. It was registered in October 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and amateur sport, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 07206240). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Family and Community Network reported income of £61k and spending of £83k, spending 135% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £51k to £61k (+20%), an average of +4.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 291%. Over the whole period it spent 75% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Family and Community Network sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include City Church Preston (£61k), St Michael's Antiochian Orthodox Parish, Stoke-On-Trent (£61k) and St Laurence Relief in Need Trust (£61k).

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.