Crisis Aid

Analysis

Crisis Aid is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bedfordshire. It was registered in June 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, the prevention or relief of poverty, overseas aid/famine relief and religious activities, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending May 2025, Crisis Aid reported income of £1.2m and spending of £1.5m, spending 122% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2021 to May 2025, income fell from £2.5m to £1.2m (-50%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2022, when income dropped by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Crisis Aid sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% 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 The Auditory Verbal Centre (£1.2m), Millwall Community Trust (£1.2m) and The Anthony and Elizabeth Mellows Charitable Settlement (£1.2m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 100%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £1.2m. Charitable activities took 75% of spending and raising funds 9.5%. Reserves of £1.2m would cover about 8 months of spending at that rate. It employed 7 people.

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.