The Royal Thames Yacht Club Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Royal Thames Yacht Club Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Yarmouth. It was registered in March 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, overseas aid/famine relief and amateur sport, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Royal Thames Yacht Club Charitable Trust reported income of £10k and spending of £18k, spending 178% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £28k to £10k (-63%), an average of -22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 76%. Over the whole period it spent 150% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, The Royal Thames Yacht Club Charitable Trust sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Exe Valley Rotary Charity (£10k), Rotary Club of Usk - Charity Account (£10k) and International Krishna Bhakti Dipika (£10k).

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.