Grindleton Consolidated Charities

Analysis

Grindleton Consolidated Charities is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Clitheroe. It was registered in August 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Grindleton Consolidated Charities reported income of £25k and spending of £35k, spending 142% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £30k to £25k (-17%), an average of -4.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income dropped by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Grindleton Consolidated Charities sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Break the Chains CIO (£25k), Transforming Health and Education in Nepal (£25k) and Pre-Eclampsia and Osteo Arthritis Medical Relief Foundation (£25k).

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.