Friends of Barham Library

Analysis

Friends of Barham Library is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wembley. It was registered in May 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 07597621). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Friends of Barham Library reported income of £64k and spending of £29k, leaving 54% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £87k to £64k (-27%), an average of -7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 84%. Over the whole period it spent 33% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Friends of Barham Library sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% 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 Friends of Windsor Music (Windsor Learning Partnership) (£64k), Lincolnshire's Lancaster Association Limited (£64k) and Bengali Cultural Society, Reading (£64k).