Bembridge Friendship Circle

Analysis

Bembridge Friendship Circle is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bembridge. It was registered in November 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Bembridge Friendship Circle reported income of £10k and spending of £4,909, leaving 52% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £21k to £10k (-52%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 76%. Over the whole period it spent 111% 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, Bembridge Friendship Circle sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 43% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ability Sports and Social (North East) (£10k), The New Square Charitable Trust (£10k) and Corringham and Fobbing Essex Old Age Pensioners Charity Fund (£10k).