The Dorfred Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Dorfred Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cambridge. It was registered in June 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Dorfred Charitable Trust reported income of £20k and spending of £30k, spending 152% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £10k to £20k (+91%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 220%. Over the whole period it spent 190% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Dorfred Charitable Trust sits at the 42nd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Worsbrough Common Community Association Limited (£20k), Wath Hall Limited (£20k) and Bhakti Dham Wales (£20k).

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.