R. Daphne Plunket Charitable Trust

Analysis

R. Daphne Plunket Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leicester. It was registered in September 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, R. Daphne Plunket Charitable Trust reported income of £125k and spending of £156k, spending 125% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £36k to £125k (+244%), an average of +36% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 167%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, R. Daphne Plunket Charitable Trust sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Elton Community Centre (£125k), Wivenhoe Housing Trust [wht] (£126k) and Appropriate Technology Asia Ltd (£125k).