Revitalise Respite Holidays

Analysis

Revitalise Respite Holidays is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in November 1986, 40 years ago. Its declared purposes cover disability, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 02044219). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending January 2025, Revitalise Respite Holidays reported income of £8.3m and spending of £12.0m, spending 145% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from January 2021 to January 2025, income fell from £10.6m to £8.3m (-22%), an average of -6.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to January 2022, when income dropped by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Revitalise Respite Holidays sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Care Housing Association (£8.2m), Caritas Care Limited (£8.3m) and Jewish Blind & Physically Handicapped Society Limited (£8.1m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 61%, donations and legacies 19% and trading 19%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £1.2m. Charitable activities took 81% of spending and raising funds 4.0%. Reserves of £2.7m would cover about 3 months of spending at that rate. It employed 193 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.