The Medical Aid for Poland Fund

Analysis

The Medical Aid for Poland Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in March 1982, 44 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, 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. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Medical Aid for Poland Fund reported income of £47k and spending of £171k, spending 364% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £155k to £47k (-70%), an average of -26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 109%. Over the whole period it spent 123% 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 Medical Aid for Poland Fund sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Sandy Dewhirst Charitable Trust (£47k), Crossroads Counselling (£47k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of All Saints' Church, Pontefract (£47k).