The Charles Newman Memorial Fund

Analysis

The Charles Newman Memorial Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in February 1976, 50 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides other finance.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Charles Newman Memorial Fund reported income of £36k and spending of £42k, spending 119% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £27k to £36k (+34%), an average of +7.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Charles Newman Memorial Fund sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tunbridge Wells and District Samaritans (£36k), Sunshine Baby Bank (£36k) and Oxford Breast Buddy Group (£36k).