The League of Friends of the Kent and Canterbury Hospital CIO

Analysis

The League of Friends of the Kent and Canterbury Hospital CIO is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Kent. It was registered in December 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to organisations and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The League of Friends of the Kent and Canterbury Hospital CIO reported income of £1.6m and spending of £1.4m, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £766k to £1.6m (+112%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 65%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The League of Friends of the Kent and Canterbury Hospital CIO sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Spot Project (£1.6m), Galloway's Society for the Blind (£1.6m) and The de Laszlo Foundation (£1.6m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from trading 73%, donations and legacies 25% and charitable activities 2.0%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £349k. Charitable activities took 24% of spending and raising funds 0.7%. Grants to other organisations totalled £290k. Reserves of £1.1m would cover about 9 months of spending at that rate. It employed 17 people.