The Torrs Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Torrs Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Portsmouth. It was registered in July 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, overseas aid/famine relief, religious activities and environment/conservation/heritage, 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 March 2025, The Torrs Charitable Trust reported income of £48k and spending of £41k, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £24k to £48k (+98%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 81%. Over the whole period it spent 82% 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 Torrs Charitable Trust sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The York Special Care Baby Unit Support Group (£48k), SEND a Little Hope (£48k) and Rotary Club of Newton Abbot Trust Fund (£48k).