Southampton and District Sick Poor Fund and Humane Society

Analysis

Southampton and District Sick Poor Fund and Humane Society is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Southampton. It was registered in April 1962, 64 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Southampton and District Sick Poor Fund and Humane Society reported income of £18k and spending of £14k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £19k to £18k (-5.7%), an average of -1.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 69%. Over the whole period it spent 55% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Southampton and District Sick Poor Fund and Humane Society sits at the 36th percentile: it is larger than about 36% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Change Birmingham Brief Therapy (£18k), Hamsteels Community Hall Association (£18k) and Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky Charitable Trust (£18k).