British Home and Hospital for Incurables

Analysis

British Home and Hospital for Incurables is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in May 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, British Home and Hospital for Incurables reported income of £8.3m and spending of £9.5m, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £5.6m to £8.3m (+47%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, British Home and Hospital for Incurables sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Quo Vadis Trust (£8.2m), Martha Trust (£8.3m) and Muslim Charity Helping the Needy (£8.1m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 94%, investments 4.1% and donations and legacies 1.2%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £54k. Charitable activities took 97% of spending and raising funds 1.6%. Reserves of £543k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate. It employed 137 people.

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.