Friends of Namuwongo Community Foundation

Analysis

Friends of Namuwongo Community Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lymington. It was registered in November 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Friends of Namuwongo Community Foundation reported income of £135k and spending of £144k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £90k to £135k (+50%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Friends of Namuwongo Community Foundation sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Burntwood Be a Friend (£135k), Council of Somali Organisations (£135k) and British Friends of the Gibraltar Kollel (£135k).