RNLI Lifesaving Endowment

Analysis

RNLI Lifesaving Endowment is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Poole. It was registered in June 2019, 7 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, RNLI Lifesaving Endowment reported income of £528k and spending of £663k, spending 126% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £566k to £528k (-6.7%), an average of -1.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 146% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, RNLI Lifesaving Endowment sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Baps Charities (£528k), Womens Consortium (£528k) and Home-Start Kernow (£528k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 99% and donations and legacies 1.1%. Charitable activities took 97% of spending and raising funds 1.6%. Grants to other organisations totalled £640k.

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.