Skylarks Endowment Fund

Analysis

Skylarks Endowment Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lincoln. It was registered in February 1983, 43 years ago. Its declared purposes cover disability, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Skylarks Endowment Fund reported income of £16k and spending of £48k, spending 306% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from January 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £17k to £16k (-9.0%), an average of -2.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 271% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Skylarks Endowment Fund sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Barefoot and Free (£16k), Reach Social Foundation (£16k) and Rotary Club of Ormskirk Clock Tower Trust Fund (£16k).

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.