The Alan and Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund

Analysis

The Alan and Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in November 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Alan and Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund reported income of £400k and spending of £915k, spending 229% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £464k to £400k (-14%), an average of -3.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income dropped by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 139% 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 Alan and Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include National Activity Providers Association (£399k), Bristol Somali Resource Centre (BSRC) (£400k) and Maslaha (£399k).

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.