Human Aid Initiative

Analysis

Human Aid Initiative is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Middlesex. It was registered in April 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to organisations and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Human Aid Initiative reported income of £36k and spending of £12k, leaving 65% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £52k to £36k (-31%), an average of -8.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Human Aid Initiative sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Lindsey and Hermes Lodge Benevolent Fund (£36k), The Final Frontier Charitable Trust (£36k) and Revive & Recycle (£36k).