The League of Friends of the Aldeburgh and District Community Hospital

Analysis

The League of Friends of the Aldeburgh and District Community Hospital is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Park Road. It was registered in May 1966, 60 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The League of Friends of the Aldeburgh and District Community Hospital reported income of £81k and spending of £25k, leaving 69% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £54k to £81k (+49%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 251%. Over the whole period it spent 76% 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 League of Friends of the Aldeburgh and District Community Hospital sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Eleanor Peel Chair of Geriatrics (£81k), Brecon Food Bank (£81k) and North and West Yorkshire Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus (£81k).