Prepared for UK Community Foundations by Adrian Taylor, 2026-10-05. If you work there and would rather this page came down, say so and it comes down.

UK Community Foundations: what the records show, and what we could do together

1. What you say, and where we read it

We read your website (UK Community Foundations) and your public channels.

• “We are here for the long term Community foundations have been helping communities in the UK for 50 years.” (ukcommunityfoundations.org)
• “Our endowment model means that we can remain as sustainable channels of support to people and communities all year round, and we can guarantee to be there for communities for many more decades.” (ukcommunityfoundations.org)

Your channels: linkedin (closed to readers, not read); facebook (closed to readers, not read).

2. Community foundations, from outside

– charities are in the field by name or membership. – other charities say in their own latest report that they serve the same people.

the fieldother charities naming its people, by register purposeof those, in another field on this site

Your members against the rest of the field

Measure	Members	Rest of the field
Fragile (share)	85%	–
Government-dependent (share)	10%	–
Reserves, months (median)	1.7	–
Income change over returns, % (median)	-10.2	–

Areas with little or no presence of your network, those with the most residents on low incomes first: Middlesbrough, Barking and Dagenham, Enfield, Brent, Hartlepool, Bradford, Haringey, Nottingham, Ealing, Islington.

The full page for your field is here.

3. Sample campaign

Three posts in your voice from the figures above, each with its picture, ready to use. Every figure is from public information and no charity is named.

4. What working together looks like

	What you get	What it costs
The field report	What your field can't see from inside it: the page on our site, in full, refreshed each quarter.	£1,500, £4,000 or £9,000 a year, by your income band, never negotiated
The members' licence	Each of your members gets its own view: where it stands beside the rest of the field, what is thin in its area, who else is at work there.	included in the year
A campaign from the findings	Posts and pictures in your voice from your field's own figures, for your channels.	£250 a month

The first month: a twenty-minute call, your page in full within a week, and the first campaign posts the week after. Prices are set by income band from the public register and are the same for everyone in the band.

5. How to say yes

Reply to the email with a day that suits, call or text Adrian on the number in the email (it is on the Contact page too), or write to adrian@charityinabox.uk.

What this can and cannot say. These are counts over groups of charities and places from their own returns and reports and from national statistics. They do not rank any charity, name any, or say why. A thin field is one where the known network is thin for the people counted here, not one where nobody is helped.

Built from public information: the Charity Commission for England and Wales register and the annual reports charities file with it (OGL v3.0); Census 2021 (ONS); the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG); the Claimant Count (ONS). Privacy.