C a Redfern Charitable Foundation

Analysis

C a Redfern Charitable Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Reading. It was registered in August 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, C a Redfern Charitable Foundation reported income of £209k and spending of £257k, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £137k to £209k (+53%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income rose by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 145% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, C a Redfern Charitable Foundation sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Sussex Police Charitable Trust (£209k), Elba Hope Foundation (£209k) and Droitwich Spa and Rural Council for Voluntary Service (£209k).

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.