Hyde Park Place Estate Charity

Analysis

Hyde Park Place Estate Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in November 1962, 64 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Hyde Park Place Estate Charity reported income of £544k and spending of £586k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £476k to £544k (+14%), an average of +3.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 114% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Hyde Park Place Estate Charity sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Brotherhood of the Cross and Star (£543k), Sporting Family Change Foundation (£544k) and Sutton Vineyard (£543k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 100%. Charitable activities took 87% of spending and raising funds 9.8%. Grants to other organisations totalled £367k.

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.