The Rowse Family Trust

Analysis

The Rowse Family Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wallingford. 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. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending January 2025, The Rowse Family Trust reported income of £118k and spending of £404k, spending 342% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from January 2021 to January 2025, income fell from £165k to £118k (-29%), an average of -8.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to January 2022, when income dropped by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 228% 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, The Rowse Family Trust sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Wheeler Mill Foundation (£118k), The Leach Fourteenth Trust (£119k) and Volunteering Bradford (£117k).

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.