Hair and Beauty Charity

Analysis

Hair and Beauty Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bedford. It was registered in March 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 10085412). It says it makes grants to individuals and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Hair and Beauty Charity reported income of £277k and spending of £280k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £234k to £277k (+19%), an average of +4.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 114% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Hair and Beauty Charity sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Manor Training and Resource Centre Ltd (£277k), Voluntary Action Rutland (£277k) and Bell Farm Christian Centre (£277k).

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.