Public Health Register

Analysis

Public Health Register is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Birmingham. It was registered in July 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04776439). It says it provides advocacy/advice/information and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Public Health Register reported income of £466k and spending of £526k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £383k to £466k (+22%), an average of +5.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Public Health Register sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Happy Children Ltd (£465k), Edmund Rice Bicentennial Trust Limited (£466k) and Healthy Living Centre Dartford (£465k).

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.