Old People's Welfare Committee for Rochford and District

Analysis

Old People's Welfare Committee for Rochford and District is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Essex. It was registered in December 1967, 59 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Old People's Welfare Committee for Rochford and District reported income of £26k and spending of £35k, spending 134% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £28k to £26k (-4.6%), an average of -1.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Old People's Welfare Committee for Rochford and District sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mejer and Gertrude Miriam Frydman Foundation (£26k), Rotary Club of Northwich Benevolent Fund (£26k) and Community Hall of Yarmouth and District (£26k).

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.