Alice Noakes Memorial Charitable Trust

Analysis

Alice Noakes Memorial Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Braintree. It was registered in July 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover animals, which this site groups under animals. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Alice Noakes Memorial Charitable Trust reported income of £69k and spending of £143k, spending 206% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £56k to £69k (+24%), an average of +5.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 160% of the income it received.

Among 2,161 England and Wales charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Alice Noakes Memorial Charitable Trust sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Caring for Animals 2001 (£69k), Prickly Pigs Hedgehog Rescue Ltd (£69k) and Starlight Barking Trust (£69k).

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.