Cobb Charity

Analysis

Cobb Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cambridge. It was registered in August 1966, 60 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Cobb Charity reported income of £20k and spending of £48k, spending 238% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £17k to £20k (+19%), an average of +4.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 196% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Cobb Charity sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 45th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Confraternity of Pilgrims to Rome (£20k), The Royal Tunbridge Wells Orpheus Male Voice Choir (£20k) and Tya UK Centre of Assitej (£20k).

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.