Communities First Wessex

Analysis

Communities First Wessex is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hampshire. It was registered in May 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 08071971). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Communities First Wessex reported income of £4.4m and spending of £3.7m, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £3.4m to £4.4m (+31%), an average of +6.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Communities First Wessex sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Michael Kirk and Noreen Blyth-Whitelock Charitable Foundation (£4.4m), The Carers' Resource (£4.4m) and Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest Ltd (£4.4m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 78% and donations and legacies 22%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £1.2m would cover about 4 months of spending at that rate. It employed 105 people.