HEALTH ACTION LOCAL ENGAGEMENT

Registered charity 1123542 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HALE

Promoting Healthy Living, through a range of activities concerning Oral, Mental and Sexual Health and Obesity.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.3m
Latest spending
£1.3m
Registered
2008
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £45,235 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £1,315,220 and total expenditure of £1,269,985. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £493,743 at year-end, which exceeds the stated policy target of three months' running costs (£256,713). The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £494k)
“It is the view that we should have sufficient funds to enable Hale to exist for a period of time (Minimum of three months running costs, including any large scale Project or Commission), to enable the development of alternative funding streams.” — page 10
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by BK Plus Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income
£1.3m
Total spending
£1.3m
Reserves (reported)
£494k
Employees
34

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (78% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

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Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Bradford City

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£1.3m£1.3m
31/03/2024£1.6m£1.6m
31/03/2023£1.4m£1.2m
31/03/2022£940k£866k
31/03/2021£847k£766k

Common questions

Is HEALTH ACTION LOCAL ENGAGEMENT financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £45,235 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £1,315,220 and total expenditure of £1,269,985. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £493,743 at year-end, which exceeds the stated policy target of three months' running costs (£256,713). The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by BK Plus Audit Limited.

Who funds HEALTH ACTION LOCAL ENGAGEMENT?

Funders whose own accounts filings name HEALTH ACTION LOCAL ENGAGEMENT as a grant recipient include THE HARRY & MARY FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE HARRY & MARY FOUNDATIONFY2023£5k
THE HARRY & MARY FOUNDATIONFY2022£2k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund30/01/2024£578kUniting Communities
The National Lottery Community Fund24/08/2016£305kSAL Befriending
The National Lottery Community Fund22/03/2016£8kWOW - Workshop on Wheels
The National Lottery Community Fund21/03/2013£10kWEAVe -We Enable Active Volunteering

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HAMARA HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
HEALTH ACTION LOCAL ENGAGEMENT£1.3m—0unclear—no doubt
HAMARA HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE FY2025£2.6m—0above—no doubt
CHILD ACTION FY2025£119k—0unclear—no doubt
HELP FOR HEALTH FY2025£121k—0above—no doubt
HEALTHY LIVING PROJECTS LIMITED FY2025£549k—0above—no doubt
OMEGA COMMUNITY LIVING LIMITED FY2025£856k—0unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.