Colchester Children's Charity Appeal

Analysis

Colchester Children's Charity Appeal is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Colchester. It was registered in December 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides services.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Colchester Children's Charity Appeal reported income of £70k and spending of £97k, spending 138% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £35k to £70k (+98%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 58%. Over the whole period it spent 128% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Colchester Children's Charity Appeal sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The European Society for Neurochemistry (£70k), The Anya Sturdy Charitable Trust for Medical Research (£70k) and Quaker Mental Health Fund ( UK ) (£70k).

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.