The Scotshill Trust

Analysis

The Scotshill Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wetherby. It was registered in February 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Scotshill Trust reported income of £34k and spending of £48k, spending 142% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £330k to £34k (-90%), an average of -44% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 169%. Over the whole period it spent 110% 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 Scotshill Trust sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ibn Abbas Islamic Centre (£34k), SHAN-Charitable Trust (£34k) and Rotary Club of Cheltenham North Trust Fund (£34k).

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.