Cambridge Aid

Analysis

Cambridge Aid is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cambridge. It was registered in August 1962, 64 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Cambridge Aid reported income of £135k and spending of £140k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £171k to £135k (-21%), an average of -5.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Cambridge Aid sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Andover Charities (£135k), The Physiotherapy Benevolent Fund (£136k) and Enderby Life Church (£135k).

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.