Robert Armitage Charitable Trust

Analysis

Robert Armitage Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Manchester. It was registered in March 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending July 2025, Robert Armitage Charitable Trust reported income of £48k and spending of £118k, spending 246% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income grew from £35k to £48k (+38%), an average of +8.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2024, when income rose by 476%. Over the whole period it spent 61% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Robert Armitage Charitable Trust sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Spanish and Portuguese Jews Home for the Aged (£48k), The Pauline and Harold Berman Charitable Trust (£48k) and Charity Extra Charitable Trust (£48k).