Les Alden Foundation

Analysis

Les Alden Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in West Sussex. It was registered in June 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Les Alden Foundation reported income of £71k and spending of £137k, spending 193% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £114k to £71k (-38%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 98%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Les Alden Foundation sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Strawberry Hill Overseas and Community Concern (£71k), Edmund Arnold's Charity (£71k) and Ohr Chodosh – the New Light Trust Limited (£71k).