Pentaid

Analysis

Pentaid is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ashford. It was registered in March 2011, 15 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 individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Pentaid reported income of £64k and spending of £122k, spending 190% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £80k to £64k (-21%), an average of -5.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income dropped by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Pentaid sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% 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 The Melbourn Mobile Warden Scheme (£64k), The Margaret de Sousa-Deiro Fund (£64k) and The Barking and Dagenham Progress Project (£64k).