The Rochdale Fund for Relief in Sickness

Analysis

The Rochdale Fund for Relief in Sickness is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Rochdale. It was registered in June 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, 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 April 2025, The Rochdale Fund for Relief in Sickness reported income of £67k and spending of £92k, spending 137% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £56k to £67k (+21%), an average of +4.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Rochdale Fund for Relief in Sickness sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sheffield M.e. Group (£67k), South Cleveland Heart Fund (£67k) and Samaritans of Lancaster & District (£67k).

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.