The Communications and Public Service Lifeboat Fund

Analysis

The Communications and Public Service Lifeboat Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Manchester. It was registered in June 1966, 60 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Communications and Public Service Lifeboat Fund reported income of £49k and spending of £91k, spending 187% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £72k to £49k (-33%), an average of -9.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 118% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Communications and Public Service Lifeboat Fund sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The David Dutton Foundation (£49k), Horace Charles Burley Will Trust (£49k) and Parsonage Residents Association (£49k).