The Dugdale Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Dugdale Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Southampton. It was registered in February 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, overseas aid/famine relief and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Dugdale Charitable Trust reported income of £11k and spending of £50k, spending 458% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £110k to £11k (-90%), an average of -44% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 216%. Over the whole period it spent 194% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Dugdale Charitable Trust sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 34% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 33rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gorton Evangelical Church (£11k), Dup Welfare UK (£11k) and Bromley Relief in Need Charity (£11k).

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.