Healthwatch Wakefield

Analysis

Healthwatch Wakefield is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in West Yorkshire. It was registered in April 2016, 10 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 company (Companies House number 09907848). It says it provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Healthwatch Wakefield reported income of £494k and spending of £466k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £322k to £494k (+53%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Healthwatch Wakefield sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Prostate Project (£493k), The Fulmer Charitable Trust (£494k) and The Scar Free Foundation (£493k).