Aldershot Charities Fund

Analysis

Aldershot Charities Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Fleet. It was registered in May 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 and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Aldershot Charities Fund reported income of £18k and spending of £35k, spending 199% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £15k to £18k (+16%), an average of +3.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2024, when income rose by 68%. Over the whole period it spent 181% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Aldershot Charities Fund sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 40% 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 Municipal Charities and Others (£18k), Blundeston, Town Estate, Bays Charity Poor's Allotments (£18k) and The Redeemed Christian Church Grace Chapel for All Nations (£18k).

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.