The Patricia Routledge Foundation

Analysis

The Patricia Routledge Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in October 1999, 27 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. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Patricia Routledge Foundation reported income of £614k and spending of £648k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £187k to £614k (+228%), an average of +35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 655%. Over the whole period it spent 123% 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 Patricia Routledge Foundation sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include BOSP Brighter Opportunities for Special People (£614k), Croydon Citizens Advice Bureaux Limited (£615k) and Alulbayt Foundation (£614k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 67% and investments 4.7%. Charitable activities took 97% of spending and raising funds 2.9%. Grants to other organisations totalled £606k.

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.