The Caythorpe and Ancaster Medical Equipment Trust

Analysis

The Caythorpe and Ancaster Medical Equipment Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Grantham. It was registered in October 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Caythorpe and Ancaster Medical Equipment Trust reported income of £29k and spending of £24k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £867 to £29k (+3228%), an average of +140% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 8659%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Caythorpe and Ancaster Medical Equipment Trust sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 52nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kingdom of Eternal Life Gospel and Healing Ministries International (£29k), Nuzhat Zaki Charitable Educational and Welfare Trust (£29k) and Hospital Radio Chelmsford (£29k).