Shap Community Enterprise

Analysis

Shap Community Enterprise is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cumbria. It was registered in January 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2026, Shap Community Enterprise reported income of £45k and spending of £47k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income grew from £35k to £45k (+29%), an average of +6.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Shap Community Enterprise sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ao Smile Foundation (£45k), Mynydd Isa Butterflies Women's Institute (£45k) and Brian Abrams Charitable Trust (£45k).

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.