Portsmouth City Council Elementary Education Foundation

Analysis

Portsmouth City Council Elementary Education Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Portsmouth. It was registered in March 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending March 2026, Portsmouth City Council Elementary Education Foundation reported income of £43k and spending of £81k, spending 188% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income fell from £86k to £43k (-51%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 146% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Portsmouth City Council Elementary Education Foundation sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Newton Poppleford School Association (£43k), The Friends of the Windsor Boys' School (£43k) and West Norfolk and King's Lynn Girls Schools Trust (£43k).

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.