The Roy and Pixie Baker Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Roy and Pixie Baker Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It was registered in February 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Roy and Pixie Baker Charitable Trust reported income of £91k and spending of £125k, spending 137% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £57k to £91k (+60%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 132% 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 Roy and Pixie Baker Charitable Trust sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Frost Foundation (£91k), Wave Wrangler (£91k) and Assist (£91k).

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.