Gospel Advocate Relief Fund

Analysis

Gospel Advocate Relief Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in East Sussex. 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 March 2025, Gospel Advocate Relief Fund reported income of £15k and spending of £32k, spending 212% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £46k to £15k (-67%), an average of -24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 87%. Over the whole period it spent 236% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Gospel Advocate Relief Fund sits at the 38th percentile: it is larger than about 38% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Frank Kingsland's Trust for the Elderly (£15k), The Goodhardt Family Charitable Trust (£15k) and Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Truro (£15k).

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.