Holmes Chapel & District University of the Third Age

Analysis

Holmes Chapel & District University of the Third Age is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Crewe. It was registered in September 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, arts/culture/heritage/science and amateur sport, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Holmes Chapel & District University of the Third Age reported income of £101k and spending of £92k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £6,064 to £101k (+1562%), an average of +102% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 257%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Holmes Chapel & District University of the Third Age sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Iraq Welfare Organisation (£101k), Steve Browne Foundation (£101k) and Old Stratford Parish Charity (£101k).