Free Your Instinct

Analysis

Free Your Instinct is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wiltshire. It was registered in March 2015, 11 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 provides services and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Free Your Instinct reported income of £15k and spending of £15k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £32k to £15k (-54%), an average of -18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 115% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Free Your Instinct sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cultural Freedom Trust (£15k), Alex Hulme Foundation (£15k) and City of Hull Street Angels (£15k).

Data notes from the register: The latest annual return was received after its deadline. Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.