Rotary Club of Shaftesbury Trust Fund

Analysis

Rotary Club of Shaftesbury Trust Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Shaftesbury. It was registered in August 1993, 33 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 and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Rotary Club of Shaftesbury Trust Fund reported income of £19k and spending of £18k, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £18k to £19k (+0.7%), an average of +0.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 54%. Over the whole period it spent 90% 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 Shaftesbury Trust Fund sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Awake Grace Ministries International (£18k), Folkestone Lions Club Charity Trust Fund (£19k) and Mount Zion Independent Methodist Church (Trust Property Held in Connection Therewith) (£18k).