The Fifty Fund

Analysis

The Fifty Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Nottingham. It was registered in April 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 makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Fifty Fund reported income of £234k and spending of £336k, spending 143% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £262k to £234k (-11%), an average of -2.8% a year. Over the whole period it spent 123% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Fifty Fund sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include 1 Morechild (£234k), Birmingham (West) and Oldbury Methodist Circuit (£234k) and Jalaram Charitable Trust (£234k).

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.