Our Lady Immaculate School Friends Association

Analysis

Our Lady Immaculate School Friends Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Chelmsford. It was registered in June 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending August 2026, Our Lady Immaculate School Friends Association reported income of £18k and spending of £19k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2022 to August 2026, income fell from £27k to £18k (-33%), an average of -9.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2024, when income dropped by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 122% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Our Lady Immaculate School Friends Association sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Willingdon Community School (£18k), Friends of Holbrook Incorporated (£18k) and Development of the Youth of Chester Charity (£18k).

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.