The Kate Farrer Foundation

Analysis

The Kate Farrer Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cambridge. It was registered in April 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Kate Farrer Foundation reported income of £52k and spending of £63k, spending 122% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £83k to £52k (-37%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 102% 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 Kate Farrer Foundation sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Milford Village Hall Fund (£52k), The Lindley Foundation (£52k) and Brighton Natural Health Foundation Limited (£52k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.