Biddenden Consolidated Charity

Analysis

Biddenden Consolidated Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ashford. 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, Biddenden Consolidated Charity reported income of £16k and spending of £7,424, leaving 54% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £12k to £16k (+38%), an average of +8.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 65% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Biddenden Consolidated 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 Jam'iat Ihyaa' Minhaaj Al-Sunnah (£16k), Reverend Francis Wheeler (£16k) and The S.w. Clive Charitable Trust (£16k).