Gospel Standard Aid and Poor Relief Society

Analysis

Gospel Standard Aid and Poor Relief Society is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Harpenden. It was registered in April 1965, 61 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Gospel Standard Aid and Poor Relief Society reported income of £265k and spending of £258k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £476k to £265k (-44%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 170%. Over the whole period it spent 56% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Gospel Standard Aid and Poor Relief Society sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hope Church (£265k), The Parochial Church Council of St Paul's Church, Hadley Wood, in the Ecclesiastical Parish of Trent As a Conventional District in the L B of Enfield (£266k) and The Methodist Church Chelmsford Circuit (£265k).