Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Charities

Analysis

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Charities is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wakefield. It was registered in May 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, makes grants to organisations and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Charities reported income of £232k and spending of £277k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £329k to £232k (-29%), an average of -8.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 114%. Over the whole period it spent 93% 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, Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Charities sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Kristina Martin Charitable Trust (£231k), The Brewers Foundation (£232k) and Saloman Foundation (£231k).

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.