The League of Friends of Newport Cottage Hospital, Shropshire

Analysis

The League of Friends of Newport Cottage Hospital, Shropshire is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Shrops. It was registered in June 1976, 50 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The League of Friends of Newport Cottage Hospital, Shropshire reported income of £96k and spending of £130k, spending 136% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £102k to £96k (-6.3%), an average of -1.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 80% 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 League of Friends of Newport Cottage Hospital, Shropshire sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hampshire Cricket Foundation (£96k), The Tim Cogley Cardiac Screening Foundation (£96k) and Mode Rehabilitation (£96k).