The Silver Lady Fund Incorporating the All Night Travelling Cafe

Analysis

The Silver Lady Fund Incorporating the All Night Travelling Cafe is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in East Sussex. It was registered in January 1966, 60 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 00370615). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Silver Lady Fund Incorporating the All Night Travelling Cafe reported income of £169k and spending of £174k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £152k to £169k (+11%), an average of +2.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 114%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Silver Lady Fund Incorporating the All Night Travelling Cafe sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kongolese Centre for Information and Advice (£169k), Nightwatch (£169k) and The Clothing Bank (£169k).