Wiltshire Ambulance Service Benevolent Fund

Analysis

Wiltshire Ambulance Service Benevolent Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Melksham. It was registered in July 1980, 46 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals, provides other finance and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Wiltshire Ambulance Service Benevolent Fund reported income of £14k and spending of £25k, spending 178% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £10k to £14k (+36%), an average of +7.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 62%. Over the whole period it spent 124% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Wiltshire Ambulance Service Benevolent Fund sits at the 32nd percentile: it is larger than about 32% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Khidmat Welfare Trust (£14k), The Shane Project (£14k) and The Dick Foundation (£14k).

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.