The Charente Group Benevolent Fund

Analysis

The Charente Group Benevolent Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Liverpool. It was registered in June 1967, 59 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Charente Group Benevolent Fund reported income of £38k and spending of £144k, spending 374% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £45k to £38k (-14%), an average of -3.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 330% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Charente Group Benevolent Fund sits at the 48th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Alternative Hair Charitable Foundation (£38k), Cheadle Heath Community Association (£38k) and Samaritans Southampton and District (£38k).

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.