The Lovington Foundation

Analysis

The Lovington Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Alresford. It was registered in March 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations, sponsors or undertakes research and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2026, The Lovington Foundation reported income of £272k and spending of £242k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income fell from £353k to £272k (-23%), an average of -6.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 81% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Lovington Foundation 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 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Esher and District Citizens Advice Bureau (£272k), Salusbury World (£272k) and Waveney Foodbank (£272k).