The Lancashire Infirm Secular Clergy Fund

Analysis

The Lancashire Infirm Secular Clergy Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lancashire. It was registered in January 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover 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.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Lancashire Infirm Secular Clergy Fund reported income of £164k and spending of £130k, leaving 20% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £162k to £164k (+0.7%), an average of +0.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 72% 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 Lancashire Infirm Secular Clergy Fund sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Morning Star Ministries (£164k), League of Friends of the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital (£164k) and Nuffield Orthopaedics Ltd (£163k).