Kingscare League of Friends

Analysis

Kingscare League of Friends is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newton Abbot. It was registered in August 2017, 9 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 incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services, provides advocacy/advice/information and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Kingscare League of Friends reported income of £175k and spending of £304k, spending 174% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £482k to £175k (-64%), an average of -22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 73%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Kingscare League of Friends sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Charities Administered in Connection with the Institute of Journalists (£175k), Rotary Club of Bournemouth Charities Fund (£175k) and Lupset Jubilee Hall Community Centre (£175k).

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.