The League of Friends of the Newton Abbot Hospitals

Analysis

The League of Friends of the Newton Abbot Hospitals is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newton Abbot. It was registered in January 1982, 44 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides other finance and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The League of Friends of the Newton Abbot Hospitals reported income of £178k and spending of £202k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £26k to £178k (+594%), an average of +62% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income rose by 398%. Over the whole period it spent 140% 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 League of Friends of the Newton Abbot Hospitals sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Chaya Reizel Hirsch Memorial Fund Ltd (£178k), Christian Restoration Ministries International (£178k) and Westminster Bangladeshi Welfare Trust (WBWT) (£178k).

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.