The Post Office Remembrance Fellowship CIO

Analysis

The Post Office Remembrance Fellowship CIO is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Tewkesbury Business Park. It was registered in February 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending July 2025, The Post Office Remembrance Fellowship CIO reported income of £608k and spending of £1.1m, spending 189% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income fell from £1.5m to £608k (-59%), an average of -20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2025, when income rose by 7679%. Over the whole period it spent 75% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, The Post Office Remembrance Fellowship CIO sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Carnegie Theatre Trust (Workington) (£607k), The Fitzrovia Chapel Foundation (£609k) and Hoole Enterprise Trust - Time for You (Hetty) (£607k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 100%. Charitable activities took 96% of spending and raising funds 3.1%. Grants to other organisations totalled £1.1m. Reserves of £1.1m would cover about 11 months of spending at that rate.

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.