Ropner Trust

Analysis

Ropner Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Stockton-On-Tees. It was registered in May 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Ropner Trust reported income of £59k and spending of £83k, spending 140% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £35k to £59k (+68%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 139% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Ropner Trust sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Friends of Malton, Norton and District Hospital (£59k), The Ben Bathurst Memorial Trust (£59k) and The Thoresby Charitable Trust (£59k).

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.