Recovery Connections

Analysis

Recovery Connections is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cleveland. It was registered in June 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, the prevention or relief of poverty and accommodation/housing, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06545431). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Recovery Connections reported income of £4.7m and spending of £4.3m, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £1.6m to £4.7m (+205%), an average of +32% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 46%. 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, Recovery Connections 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 Age UK Coventry and Warwickshire (£4.7m), Turner Home (£4.8m) and Structural Genomics Consortium (£4.7m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 90% and trading 9.5%. Charitable activities took 91% of spending and raising funds 8.8%. Reserves of £216k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate. It employed 124 people.