Professionals Aid Council

Analysis

Professionals Aid Council is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in September 1962, 64 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 00174262). It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Professionals Aid Council reported income of £199k and spending of £471k, spending 237% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £189k to £199k (+5.1%), an average of +1.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 188% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Professionals Aid Council sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Westminster Memorial Hospital (£199k), Queenborough Fishery Trust (£199k) and Army Sailing Association - Thorney Island Sailing Club (£198k).

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.