The Russell Family Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Russell Family Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Coventry. It was registered in November 2007, 19 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 individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending November 2025, The Russell Family Charitable Trust reported income of £11k and spending of £11k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from November 2021 to November 2025, income grew from £5,380 to £11k (+113%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to November 2022, when income rose by 134%. Over the whole period it spent 114% 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 Russell Family Charitable Trust sits at the 29th percentile: it is larger than about 29% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 34th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Independent Cancer Patients' Voice (£11k), The Thyroid Trust (£11k) and The League of Friends of the Alfred Bean Hospital,driffield (£11k).