Leicester Children's Holidays

Analysis

Leicester Children's Holidays is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leicester. It was registered in July 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Leicester Children's Holidays reported income of £390k and spending of £379k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £75k to £390k (+421%), an average of +51% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2023, when income rose by 91%. Over the whole period it spent 119% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Leicester Children's Holidays sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The King's Arms Youth Project (£390k), Home-Start in East Lancashire (£391k) and Fountain of Chessed Limited (£390k).