Gower Street

Analysis

Gower Street is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Kent. It was registered in May 2019, 7 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending October 2025, Gower Street reported income of £478k and spending of £1.8m, spending 386% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income grew from £454k to £478k (+5.3%), an average of +1.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2022, when income rose by 291%. Over the whole period it spent 198% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Gower Street sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Uggla Family Foundation (£477k), The Borrows Charitable Trust (£478k) and The Roy Bard Charitable Foundation (£475k).

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.