The Ellison-Cliffe Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Ellison-Cliffe Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in East Sussex. It was registered in May 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending September 2025, The Ellison-Cliffe Charitable Trust reported income of £63k and spending of £85k, spending 135% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income fell from £3.4m to £63k (-98%), an average of -63% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income dropped by 98%. Over the whole period it spent 14% 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 Ellison-Cliffe Charitable Trust sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Parkinson's Africa (£63k), Santok Charitable Foundation (£64k) and West London NHS Charitable Fund (£63k).