The Wilkins Memorial Trust

Analysis

The Wilkins Memorial Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It was registered in June 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Wilkins Memorial Trust reported income of £13k and spending of £21k, spending 166% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £17k to £13k (-25%), an average of -6.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income dropped by 46%. Over the whole period it spent 121% 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 Wilkins Memorial Trust sits at the 31st percentile: it is larger than about 31% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 35th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Oxford Street Pastors (£13k), The Sarah D'avigdor-Goldsmid Charitable Trust (£13k) and Cancer and Pisces Trust (£13k).

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.