Leicester Aid in Sickness Fund

Analysis

Leicester Aid in Sickness Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leicester. It was registered in December 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Leicester Aid in Sickness Fund reported income of £14k and spending of £15k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £11k to £14k (+21%), an average of +4.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Leicester Aid in Sickness Fund sits at the 32nd percentile: it is larger than about 32% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 37th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Abacus Counselling Services Limited (£14k), Longleat Charitable Trust (£14k) and The Park Family Charitable Trust (£14k).

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.