Rubicon Cares

Analysis

Rubicon Cares is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Maidstone. It was registered in September 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover other charitable purposes, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Rubicon Cares reported income of £94k and spending of £116k, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £265k to £94k (-64%), an average of -23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income dropped by 45%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 1,463 England and Wales charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Rubicon Cares sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Royal Gurkha Rifles Trust (£93k), Abbey Wood Community Group (£96k) and The Fertility Foundation (£92k).

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.