Ay and Y Patel Charitable Trust

Analysis

Ay and Y Patel Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in West Yorkshire. It was registered in November 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 December 2025, Ay and Y Patel Charitable Trust reported income of £354k and spending of £296k, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £266k to £354k (+33%), an average of +7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 97%. Over the whole period it spent 92% 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, Ay and Y Patel Charitable Trust sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Preston Family Charitable Settlement (£352k), Age Concern Eastleigh (£355k) and Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Synagogue Common Investment Fund (£352k).