The D'oyly Carte Charitable Trust

Analysis

The D'oyly Carte Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Gloucestershire. It was registered in December 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05638406). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The D'oyly Carte Charitable Trust reported income of £1.5m and spending of £2.4m, spending 164% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £1.3m to £1.5m (+14%), an average of +3.2% a year. Over the whole period it spent 164% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The D'oyly Carte Charitable Trust sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Shared Lives Plus Limited (£1.5m), British-Ukrainian Aid (£1.5m) and The Monastery of St Francis Gorton Trust Ltd (£1.5m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 100%. Charitable activities took 88% of spending and raising funds 10%. Grants to other organisations totalled £2.1m. Reserves of £67.2m would cover about 325 months of spending at that rate.

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.