The J M Farraday Charitable Trust

Analysis

The J M Farraday Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lancashire. It was registered in May 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and religious activities, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The J M Farraday Charitable Trust reported income of £17k and spending of £32k, spending 190% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £6,911 to £17k (+146%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 711% 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 J M Farraday Charitable Trust sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Children of Sumatra (£17k), The Eldon Charitable Trust (£17k) and The National Council of Women of Great Britain (£17k).

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.