The League of Friends of Brampton and District War Memorial Hospital and the Community

Analysis

The League of Friends of Brampton and District War Memorial Hospital and the Community is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Carlisle. It was registered in October 1977, 49 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it provides other finance, provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The League of Friends of Brampton and District War Memorial Hospital and the Community reported income of £16k and spending of £41k, spending 264% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £36k to £16k (-56%), an average of -19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 288%. Over the whole period it spent 177% 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 Brampton and District War Memorial Hospital and the Community sits at the 34th percentile: it is larger than about 34% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include British Society of Head and Neck Imaging (Bshni) (£16k), Thatcham Rotary Club Trust Fund (£16k) and Tools for Inner Peace (£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.