Market Harborough and the Bowdens Charity

Analysis

Market Harborough and the Bowdens Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Market Harborough. It was registered in July 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and accommodation/housing, 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 December 2025, Market Harborough and the Bowdens Charity reported income of £421k and spending of £554k, spending 132% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £680k to £421k (-38%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 133% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Market Harborough and the Bowdens Charity sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Church Homeless Charity (£421k), Christ for the World (£422k) and Ybp Limited (£421k).

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.