The Tony and Sheelagh Williams Charitable Foundation

Analysis

The Tony and Sheelagh Williams Charitable Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Beaconsfield. It was registered in November 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. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Tony and Sheelagh Williams Charitable Foundation reported income of £266k and spending of £556k, spending 209% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £86k to £266k (+211%), an average of +33% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 116%. Over the whole period it spent 214% 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 Tony and Sheelagh Williams Charitable Foundation sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Re-Solv Charity (£266k), Somewhere to Go Limited (£266k) and Insiuk (£266k).

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.