Rotary Club of Wellington (Shropshire) Benevolent Fund

Analysis

Rotary Club of Wellington (Shropshire) Benevolent Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Shropshire. It was registered in September 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Rotary Club of Wellington (Shropshire) Benevolent Fund reported income of £22k and spending of £29k, spending 131% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income fell from £25k to £22k (-11%), an average of -3.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2024, when income dropped by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 128% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Rotary Club of Wellington (Shropshire) Benevolent Fund sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Apostolic Church of God (Seventh Day) (£22k), Rotary Club of Keswick Trust Fund (£22k) and Rotary Club of Kettering Charitable Trust Fund (£22k).

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.