The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

Analysis

The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxford. It was registered in August 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, environment/conservation/heritage and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 07450026). It says it provides services, provides advocacy/advice/information and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare reported income of £1.6m and spending of £1.5m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from November 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £781k to £1.6m (+108%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to November 2022, when income rose by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Galloway's Society for the Blind (£1.6m), Harrow Club (£1.6m) and The League of Friends of the Kent and Canterbury Hospital CIO (£1.6m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 64% and charitable activities 36%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £53k would cover about 0 months of spending at that rate. It employed 31 people.