Reading Retirement Centre (F I R T R E E )

Analysis

Reading Retirement Centre (F I R T R E E ) is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Reading. It was registered in August 1981, 45 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Reading Retirement Centre (F I R T R E E ) reported income of £10k and spending of £9,976, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £18k to £10k (-43%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income dropped by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Reading Retirement Centre (F I R T R E E ) sits at the 28th percentile: it is larger than about 28% 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 The Wish Tree (£10k), Central Fast Response (£10k) and The Lord Mayor of Kingston Upon Hull's Charity Appeal (£10k).