D & D Charitable Trust

Analysis

D & D Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Salford. It was registered in March 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives 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 individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, D & D Charitable Trust reported income of £489k and spending of £232k, leaving 52% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £62k to £489k (+689%), an average of +68% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 116%. Over the whole period it spent 68% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, D & D Charitable Trust sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Birmingham Centre for Arts Therapies (£489k), Axis Foundation (£490k) and Ahimsa (£489k).