Kent Foster Care Association

Analysis

Kent Foster Care Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Folkestone. It was registered in October 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover other charitable purposes, which this site groups under other charitable purposes. It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Kent Foster Care Association reported income of £51k and spending of £53k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £37k to £51k (+38%), an average of +8.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 1,463 England and Wales charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Kent Foster Care Association sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chichester Cathedral Friends (£51k), The Newell Centre Association (£51k) and The Preston Park University of the Third Age (£51k).

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.