Rotary Club of Potters Bar Benevolent Fund

Analysis

Rotary Club of Potters Bar Benevolent Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hertfordshire. It was registered in September 1971, 55 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, arts/culture/heritage/science and amateur sport, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Rotary Club of Potters Bar Benevolent Fund reported income of £12k and spending of £10k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £1,121 to £12k (+949%), an average of +80% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 149%. Over the whole period it spent 104% 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, Rotary Club of Potters Bar Benevolent Fund sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 34th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Society for Co-Operation in Russian and Soviet Studies (£12k), The Shaftesbury Town Silver Band (£12k) and Midlands Early Music Forum (£12k).