The Charlie & Carter Foundation Limited

Analysis

The Charlie & Carter Foundation Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in South Shields. It was registered in April 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and 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 09909730). It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending May 2025, The Charlie & Carter Foundation Limited reported income of £275k and spending of £311k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2021 to May 2025, income grew from £148k to £275k (+86%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2022, when income rose by 70%. Over the whole period it spent 106% 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 Charlie & Carter Foundation Limited sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 76% 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 The Foundation for Feeding, Education and Development (£275k), Key Changes Music Therapy (£276k) and The Denby Dale Centre Limited (£275k).

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.