The General Charity Fund

Analysis

The General Charity Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Liverpool. It was registered in June 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending June 2025, The General Charity Fund reported income of £59k and spending of £60k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £43k to £59k (+37%), an average of +8.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 77% 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 General Charity Fund sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Our Society United Kingdom (£59k), Wrentham Aid Charitable Trust (£59k) and League of Friends of Beccles and District War Memorial Hospital (£59k).