Beverley Consolidated Charity

Analysis

Beverley Consolidated Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Beverley. It was registered in October 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty and accommodation/housing, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Beverley Consolidated Charity reported income of £1.3m and spending of £1.4m, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2020 to March 2025, income grew from £897k to £1.3m (+40%), an average of +8.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 126% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Beverley Consolidated Charity sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include City Life Church Southampton (£1.3m), Wokingham United Charities (£1.3m) and North Lancashire Citizens Advice Bureau (£1.3m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 73% and investments 26%. Charitable activities took 89% of spending and raising funds 3.8%. Reserves of £18.5m would cover about 148 months of spending at that rate. It employed 6 people.

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.