The Civil Service Retirement Fellowship

Analysis

The Civil Service Retirement Fellowship is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in March 1968, 58 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06297479). It says it provides human resources, provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Civil Service Retirement Fellowship reported income of £367k and spending of £301k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £216k to £367k (+70%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 100% 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 Civil Service Retirement Fellowship sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Saintbury Trust (£365k), The Kier Foundation (£368k) and The Blyth Charitable Trust (£365k).