The Johnston Family Charity

Analysis

The Johnston Family Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Liverpool. It was registered in September 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.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Johnston Family Charity reported income of £16k and spending of £30k, spending 187% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £25k to £16k (-35%), an average of -10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 134% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Johnston Family Charity sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 39% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ashford Relief in Need Charities (£16k), Henry Smith's Charity (£16k) and The Institution of Plant Engineers Benevolent Fund (£16k).

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.