HEALTH LIMITED

Registered charity 290535 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEALTH POVERTY ACTION, HEALTH UNLIMITED

We work to improve the health of the world's poorest people, ensuring people who otherwise would have no support receive basic but life-saving health care and education.

Objects

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF PRIMARY HEALTH CARE, OF COMMUNITIES WHO RECEIVE LITTLE OR NO EXTERNAL ASSISTANCE BECAUSE OF POLITICAL INSTABILITY AND/OR CONFLICT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wandsworth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£10.0m
Latest spending
£9.3m
Registered
1984
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased by 7% to £9,988,307, driven by reduced government funding and project completions. General reserves stood at £1.8 million, which is above the Board's agreed target range of £1.0–£1.5 million, providing a buffer against income fluctuations. The Trustees confirmed there are 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

Highest-paid employee band: £70,001 - £80,000 — above the median for charities its size (£70k)
“Two employees received remuneration of between £70,000 - £80,000 in 2024-25” — page 51
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Fundraising cost ratio: 5.0% of fundraised income, as disclosed
“£507,758 (2024: £361,944) on raising funds – representing 5% of total expenditure”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: £1.0–£1.5 million (held: £1.8m)
“For 2025, the agreed target range was £1.0–£1.5 million.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: HPA provided management and support services to Find Your Feet (FYF) free of charge in 2024-25, whereas it cost £51,060 in 2024. FYF made grants of £30,189 to HPA for work in Guatemala and Myanmar.
“In 2024-2025, a total of £30,189 was spend to support HPA work in Guatemala and Myanmar.” — page 55
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 1
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 5 (£60,001–£70,000: 3; £80,001–£90,000: 2)
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 6
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 5 (£60,001–£70,000: 4; £70,001–£80,000: 1)
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 100
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 3 (£60,001–£70,000: 2; £70,001–£80,000: 1)
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

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

Total income
£10.0m
Total spending
£9.3m
Cost of raising funds
£508k
Reserves (reported)
£1.9m
Employees
314

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 5.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Burma · Cambodia · China · Ethiopia · Guatemala · Kenya · Laos · Namibia · Nicaragua · Rwanda · Sierra Leone · Somalia

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£10.0m£9.3m
31/03/2024£10.7m£11.0m
31/03/2023£14.7m£14.5m
31/03/2022£15.0m£14.9m
31/03/2021£19.8m£20.7m

Common questions

Is HEALTH LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income decreased by 7% to £9,988,307, driven by reduced government funding and project completions. General reserves stood at £1.8 million, which is above the Board's agreed target range of £1.0–£1.5 million, providing a buffer against income fluctuations. The Trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of HEALTH LIMITED earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £70,001 - £80,000 band.

Who funds HEALTH LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name HEALTH LIMITED as a grant recipient include THE RODDICK FOUNDATION, H C D MEMORIAL FUND, THE EVAN CORNISH FOUNDATION, MERCURY PHOENIX TRUST, THE BEATRICE LAING TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE RODDICK FOUNDATIONFY2026£61k
THE RODDICK FOUNDATIONFY2025£55k
H C D MEMORIAL FUNDFY2022£30kHealth
H C D MEMORIAL FUNDFY2025£20kHealth
H C D MEMORIAL FUNDFY2024£20kHealth
THE EVAN CORNISH FOUNDATIONFY2022£10k
MERCURY PHOENIX TRUSTFY2025£5kRwanda
THE BEATRICE LAING TRUSTFY2025£5k
H C D MEMORIAL FUNDFY2023£5kHealth
THE TULA TRUST LIMITEDFY2023£5k
THE TULA TRUST LIMITEDFY2021£4k
SANDRA CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£4k
SANDRA CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£3k
THE OAKDALE TRUSTFY2025£3k
SANDRA CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£3kGrant paid or payable
SANDRA CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£3k
THE TULA TRUST LIMITEDFY2022£2k
THE WYNDHAM CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£2k
THE WYNDHAM CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£1k
THE WYNDHAM CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£1k
THE MAGENI TRUSTFY2023£750
THE MAGENI TRUSTFY2022£750
THE MAGENI TRUSTFY2024£500
THE MAGENI TRUSTFY2025£500
THE ANCASTER TRUSTFY2023£300

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund22/12/2014£505kHealthier Indigenous women and newborns, Nicaragua
The National Lottery Community Fund02/10/2014£411kMothers Own Their Health Education & Rights
The National Lottery Community Fund25/06/2014£5kHealthier Indigenous women and newborns, Nicaragua
The National Lottery Community Fund19/03/2014£5kMothers Own Their Health Education & Rights
The National Lottery Community Fund18/12/2013£542kWise Welbodi Women Project (WWW)
The National Lottery Community Fund24/06/2013£286kMaya Mothers and Children
The National Lottery Community Fund25/10/2012£503kPreah Vihear Primary Healthcare Project
The National Lottery Community Fund05/10/2011£504kPastoralist Health Development Project 2
The National Lottery Community Fund22/03/2011£8kPastoralist Health Development Project 2
The National Lottery Community Fund17/06/2008£529kNorthern Bombali Kombra and Pikin Wellbody Community Project
The National Lottery Community Fund23/11/2005£751kCambodia Youth SRH and Advocacy Initiative
The National Lottery Community Fund23/11/2004£767kPastoralist Health Development Project, South Omo, Ethiopia

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 HEALTH FOR ALL (LEEDS) LTD.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
HEALTH LIMITED£10.0m£70,001 - £80,000—above5.0%no doubt
HEALTH FOR ALL (LEEDS) LTD FY2025£2.4m—0below—no doubt
HEALTH HELP INTERNATIONAL FY2025£195k—0above—no doubt
HEALTH THROUGH SPORT LIMITED FY2025£39k—0unclear—no doubt
THE HEALTHY LIVING PLATFORM FY2025£386k—0unclear—material uncertainty
ZEST-HEALTH FOR LIFE LIMITED FY2025£395k—0within—noted

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