Rotary Club of Shoreham and Southwick Charitable Trust

Analysis

Rotary Club of Shoreham and Southwick Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Shoreham-By-Sea. It was registered in November 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides human resources.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Rotary Club of Shoreham and Southwick Charitable Trust reported income of £14k and spending of £14k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £4,776 to £14k (+187%), an average of +30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2024, when income rose by 114%. Over the whole period it spent 114% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Rotary Club of Shoreham and Southwick Charitable Trust sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 37th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Children's Aid International (Kenya) (£14k), Frank McGovern Charitable Trust (£14k) and Kenyan School Fund (£14k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.