The Sir James Roll Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Sir James Roll Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Kent. It was registered in October 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and disability, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Sir James Roll Charitable Trust reported income of £248k and spending of £252k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £198k to £248k (+25%), an average of +5.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, The Sir James Roll Charitable Trust sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Heanor Miners' Welfare Trust (£248k), The Gloucestershire Association for Disability (£248k) and London Muslim Support Network (£247k).

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.