The Oliver Morland Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Oliver Morland Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Shaftesbury. It was registered in June 1999, 27 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 organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Oliver Morland Charitable Trust reported income of £51k and spending of £119k, spending 231% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £41k to £51k (+26%), an average of +5.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 278% 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 Oliver Morland Charitable Trust sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rotary Club of Dover Samaritan Trust Fund (£51k), The Marsh Hollingworth Foundation (£52k) and The Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society (£51k).

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.