Axminster Care Service

Analysis

Axminster Care Service is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Devon. It was registered in November 1989, 37 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides human resources.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Axminster Care Service reported income of £123k and spending of £125k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £70k to £123k (+76%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 934%. Over the whole period it spent 36% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Axminster Care Service sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tooting Community Kitchen (£123k), The Philip J Milton and Company PLC Charitable Foundation (£123k) and Community of Saint John (£123k).