The Anya Sturdy Charitable Trust for Medical Research

Analysis

The Anya Sturdy Charitable Trust for Medical Research is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in March 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations and provides services.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Anya Sturdy Charitable Trust for Medical Research reported income of £70k and spending of £131k, spending 187% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £24k to £70k (+193%), an average of +31% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 104%. Over the whole period it spent 312% 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 Anya Sturdy Charitable Trust for Medical Research sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Colchester Children's Charity Appeal (£70k), The Ward Blenkinsop Trust (£70k) and The European Society for Neurochemistry (£70k).

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.