R. E. Chadwick Charitable Trust

Analysis

R. E. Chadwick Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ilkley. It was registered in July 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, R. E. Chadwick Charitable Trust reported income of £93k and spending of £91k, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £234k to £93k (-60%), an average of -21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income dropped by 62%. Over the whole period it spent 36% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, R. E. Chadwick Charitable Trust sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% 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 Van Mesdag Fund (£93k), Bishops Lydeard Village Hall and Playing Field (£93k) and The Sir Hugh and Lady Sykes Charitable Trust (£93k).