Basic Income Earth Network (Bien)

Analysis

Basic Income Earth Network (Bien) is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in East Sussex. It was registered in February 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides advocacy/advice/information, sponsors or undertakes research and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Basic Income Earth Network (Bien) reported income of £305k and spending of £133k, leaving 56% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £6,029 to £305k (+4952%), an average of +167% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 796%. Over the whole period it spent 59% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Basic Income Earth Network (Bien) sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Purple Playhouse (£305k), Magdalen and Lasher Educational Foundation (£305k) and The Society of Legal Scholars in the United Kingdom and Ireland (£304k).