Ellerman Lines Benevolent Fund

Analysis

Ellerman Lines Benevolent Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Princes Risborough. It was registered in August 1968, 58 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending April 2026, Ellerman Lines Benevolent Fund reported income of £13k and spending of £52k, spending 389% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2026, income fell from £18k to £13k (-25%), an average of -7.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income dropped by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 313% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Ellerman Lines Benevolent Fund sits at the 37th percentile: it is larger than about 37% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Nazareth Way CIO (£13k), The Mayoress' Fund for Discharged Servicemen and Women (£13k) and The Marston Moretaine Charities (£13k).

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.