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Brixton House Limited

Registered · see notesRegistered charity number 288931LondonPoverty relief
Income£2.0m2025-03-31
Spending£3.4msame year
Spent / received133%5-year average
Size in its cause96th pctPoverty relief
Registered1984Charitable company
Employees65,170latest return

Analysis

Brixton House Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in March 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 01796513). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Brixton House Limited reported income of £2.0m and spending of £3.4m, spending 173% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £1.1m to £2.0m (+77%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 88%. Over the whole period it spent 133% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Brixton House Limited sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Yad Moshe Limited (£2.0m), Entindale Limited (£2.0m) and Onvero (£2.0m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 48%, trading 29%, investments 7.6% and donations and legacies 1.8%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £8,000. Charitable activities took 77% of spending and raising funds 20%. It employed 65,170 people.

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.

Income and spending

£0£850k£1.7m£2.5m£3.4m2021 Income: £1,108,9182021 Spending: £782,53520212022 Income: £2,081,0052022 Spending: £1,167,99520222023 Income: £1,363,3712023 Spending: £2,660,24320232024 Income: £1,565,2212024 Spending: £2,745,39020242025 Income: £1,959,4882025 Spending: £3,398,3232025
IncomeSpending

Where the income comes from

  • Donations 1.4%
  • Legacies 0.4%
  • Charitable activities 48%
  • Trading 29%
  • Investments 7.6%
  • Other 13%

In the charity's own words

Established in the 1930s as a philanthropic educational project, Oval House developed as a specialist arts centre in the 1960s, maintaining a strong educational core to the work while establishing an identity as a seed-bedding space for some of Britain's most cutting edge new artists. The work falls into three areas, of equal policy priority:Theatre, Youth Arts and Arts in Education.

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