The Anna Rosa Forster Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Anna Rosa Forster Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It was registered in January 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, overseas aid/famine relief and animals, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Anna Rosa Forster Charitable Trust reported income of £73k and spending of £69k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £66k to £73k (+10%), an average of +2.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 117% 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 Anna Rosa Forster Charitable Trust sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ibad Ar-Rahman Welfare Trust (£73k), The St Gregory's Foundation (£73k) and Valerie Taylor Trust (£73k).