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Letter Box Study Group

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1198577ShropshireChildren and youth development
Income£22k2025-04-30
Spending£22ksame year
Spent / received98%3-year average
Size in its cause65th pctChildren and youth development
Registered2022CIO
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Letter Box Study Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Shropshire. It was registered in April 2022, 4 years ago. Its declared purposes cover other charitable purposes, which this site groups under children and youth development. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides advocacy/advice/information, sponsors or undertakes research and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Letter Box Study Group reported income of £22k and spending of £22k, spending 99% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from April 2023 to April 2025, income grew from £18k to £22k (+21%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 5,641 England and Wales charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, Letter Box Study Group sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Families Need Fathers Both Parents Matter Cymru (£22k), Friends of George Spicer School (£22k) and The Friends of Reedings Junior School and Fawbert and Barnard Infants School (£22k).

Income and spending

£0£5,562£11k£17k£22k2023 Income: £18,3432023 Spending: £17,13420232024 Income: £19,1362024 Spending: £19,16520242025 Income: £22,2472025 Spending: £21,9222025
IncomeSpending

Where the income comes from

  • Other 100%

In the charity's own words

To advance the education of the public in the heritage and history, development and maintenance of letter boxes in the United Kingdom, and British letter boxes worldwide.

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Families Need Fathers Both Parents Matter CymruCardiff£22k
Friends of George Spicer SchoolMiddlesex£22k
The Friends of Reedings Junior School and Fawbert and Barnard Infants SchoolSawbridgeworth£22k
Winslow Community TrustBuckingham£22k