Reading Lions Club (CIO)

Analysis

Reading Lions Club (CIO) is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Reading. It was registered in January 2021, 5 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Reading Lions Club (CIO) reported income of £41k and spending of £43k, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2022 to June 2025, income fell from £88k to £41k (-53%), an average of -22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income dropped by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Reading Lions Club (CIO) sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Deddington Charity Estates (£41k), The Keaton Emery Memorial Foundation (£41k) and The Ups of Downs (£41k).

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.