Gowing Foundation

Analysis

Gowing Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in November 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and amateur sport, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending November 2025, Gowing Foundation reported income of £21k and spending of £21k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from November 2021 to November 2025, income grew from £8,920 to £21k (+134%), an average of +24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to November 2022, when income rose by 238%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Gowing Foundation sits at the 38th percentile: it is larger than about 38% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 45th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Muriel Eanes Charitable Trust (£21k), The South West General Practice Trust (£21k) and Care2share (£21k).

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.