Catenian Association Benevolent and Children's Fund

Analysis

Catenian Association Benevolent and Children's Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Coventry. It was registered in January 1963, 63 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 and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending March 2026, Catenian Association Benevolent and Children's Fund reported income of £488k and spending of £1.3m, spending 271% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income fell from £700k to £488k (-30%), an average of -8.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 99%. Over the whole period it spent 163% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Catenian Association Benevolent and Children's Fund sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% 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 Child Rescue Nepal (£488k), York City Church (£489k) and Friends of Wmsbg-Kolel Damesek Eliezer (£488k).

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.