The Ambulance Staff Charity

Analysis

The Ambulance Staff Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Coventry. It was registered in September 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover 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 makes grants to individuals, provides other finance and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Ambulance Staff Charity reported income of £871k and spending of £972k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £1.1m to £871k (-20%), an average of -5.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 116% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Ambulance Staff Charity sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Foundation for Women's Health Research and Development (£871k), Sandwell Asian Family Support Service Limited (£872k) and Age UK South Gloucestershire Ltd (£871k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from trading 39%, donations and legacies 27%, charitable activities 24% and investments 9.5%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £10k. Charitable activities took 60% of spending and raising funds 20%. Reserves of £41k would cover about 0 months of spending at that rate. It employed 13 people.

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.