The Ken Wrigley Memorial Charity

Analysis

The Ken Wrigley Memorial Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in West Midlands. It was registered in August 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Ken Wrigley Memorial Charity reported income of £57k and spending of £114k, spending 200% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £48k to £57k (+20%), an average of +4.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 161% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Ken Wrigley Memorial Charity sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% 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 Felixstowe Carnival Association (£57k), Alsager Round Table Charitable Trust Fund (£57k) and The GB Trust (£57k).

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.