Fred and Marjorie Sainsbury Charitable Trust

Analysis

Fred and Marjorie Sainsbury Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wiltshire. It was registered in May 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and amateur sport, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Fred and Marjorie Sainsbury Charitable Trust reported income of £38k and spending of £234k, spending 608% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £43k to £38k (-11%), an average of -2.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 208% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Fred and Marjorie Sainsbury Charitable Trust sits at the 48th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include British Supporters of Efrat (£38k), Brihottor Sylhet Education Trust (£38k) and The Miss Jo Torrington Childrens Fund (£38k).

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.