The Shrewsbury Furniture Scheme

Analysis

The Shrewsbury Furniture Scheme is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Shropshire. It was registered in July 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover disability, the prevention or relief of poverty, environment/conservation/heritage and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Shrewsbury Furniture Scheme reported income of £281k and spending of £237k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £175k to £281k (+60%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, The Shrewsbury Furniture Scheme sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Royal Docks Trust (London) (£281k), Hope Baptist Church, Plymouth (£281k) and Bexley Snap (£281k).