Criffel Charitable Trust

Analysis

Criffel Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Stoke-On-Trent. It was registered in September 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, the prevention or relief of poverty, overseas aid/famine relief and religious activities, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Criffel Charitable Trust reported income of £33k and spending of £144k, spending 431% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £25k to £33k (+33%), an average of +7.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 333% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Criffel Charitable Trust 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 54th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Headway Wirral (£33k), Ward Freman Community Pool Group CIO (£33k) and Bromley and Orpington Samaritans (£33k).

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.