PC Nicola Hughes Memorial Fund

Analysis

PC Nicola Hughes Memorial Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oldham. It was registered in March 2014, 12 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 incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending April 2025, PC Nicola Hughes Memorial Fund reported income of £27k and spending of £23k, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £16k to £27k (+66%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 131%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, PC Nicola Hughes Memorial Fund sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include RCCG - the Joy of All Souls (£27k), The Woodhouse Trust (£27k) and James 1v27 (£27k).