St Matthew's Project

Analysis

St Matthew's Project is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in March 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, amateur sport and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 07007350). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, St Matthew's Project reported income of £339k and spending of £395k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £202k to £339k (+68%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 85%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, St Matthew's Project sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dallow Community Nursery (£339k), St Antony's Centre for Church & Industry (£339k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Saint Andrew and Saint Mark, Surbiton (£339k).

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.