Aspirations Southend

Analysis

Aspirations Southend is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Southend-On-Sea. It was registered in August 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Aspirations Southend reported income of £10k and spending of £12k, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £8,131 to £10k (+28%), an average of +6.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 426%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Aspirations Southend sits at the 34th percentile: it is larger than about 34% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Yarwell United Charities (£10k), Poor's Estate (£10k) and Isaac and Annie Fogelman Relief Trust (£10k).

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.