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Family Groups Limited

RegisteredRegistered charity number 261622LondonPoverty relief
Income£464k2025-03-31
Spending£398ksame year
Spent / received88%5-year average
Size in its cause86th pctPoverty relief
Registered1973Charitable company
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Family Groups Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in January 1973, 53 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 00984912). It says it provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Family Groups Limited reported income of £464k and spending of £398k, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £357k to £464k (+30%), an average of +6.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Family Groups Limited sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The King's Cross Church and Junction, Hexthorpe, Doncaster (£464k), Covent Garden Social and Crafts Centre Association (£464k) and The Company of Chartered Surveyors Charitable Trust Fund (1992) (£463k).

Income and spending

£0£128k£257k£385k£513k2021 Income: £356,6202021 Spending: £267,03720212022 Income: £285,1472022 Spending: £350,65820222023 Income: £369,6752023 Spending: £350,09720232024 Income: £513,3412024 Spending: £376,34020242025 Income: £463,9192025 Spending: £398,2432025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

Family Groups Limited t/a Al-Anon Family Groups has been in operation since 1951. Al-Anon Family Groups has but one purpose: to help families of alcoholics. Al-Anon is not allied with any sect, denomination, political entity, organisation or institution; does not engage in any controversy; neither endorses nor opposes any cause. Support groups can be found throughout the UK.

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The King's Cross Church and Junction, Hexthorpe, DoncasterSouth Yorkshire£464k
Covent Garden Social and Crafts Centre AssociationLondon£464k
The Company of Chartered Surveyors Charitable Trust Fund (1992)London£463k
Cove Parochial Church CouncilHampshire£465k