Chester and District Samaritans

Analysis

Chester and District Samaritans is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Chester. It was registered in December 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Chester and District Samaritans reported income of £48k and spending of £45k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £79k to £48k (-39%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 45%. 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, Chester and District Samaritans sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Society for the Social History of Medicine (£48k), Musgrove Leukaemic Group Somerset (£48k) and Bestobell-Meggitt Welfare Trust (£48k).