The Children's Rest School of Recovery

Analysis

The Children's Rest School of Recovery is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Prescot. It was registered in February 1967, 59 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, 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 Children's Rest School of Recovery reported income of £26k and spending of £31k, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £19k to £26k (+35%), an average of +7.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 118% 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 Children's Rest School of Recovery sits at the 42nd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include New Life Nepal Support Trust (£26k), Dinnington Area Regeneration Trust Ltd (£26k) and The Douglas and Elizabeth Hawtin Charitable Settlement (£26k).

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.