The Washing Machine Project Foundation

Analysis

The Washing Machine Project Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bath. It was registered in February 2021, 5 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending July 2025, The Washing Machine Project Foundation reported income of £153k and spending of £325k, spending 213% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from July 2022 to July 2025, income fell from £185k to £153k (-18%), an average of -6.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2023, when income rose by 59%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, The Washing Machine Project Foundation sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include English+ (£153k), Dream-A-Way CIO (£153k) and Selly Oak Methodist Church (£152k).