The Roger & Douglas Turner Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Roger & Douglas Turner Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Worcestershire. It was registered in November 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Roger & Douglas Turner Charitable Trust reported income of £1.9m and spending of £3.1m, spending 162% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £2.0m to £1.9m (-5.8%), an average of -1.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 123% 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 Roger & Douglas Turner Charitable Trust sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Philip Breeze Will Trust (£1.9m), Age UK Leeds (£1.9m) and Age Concern Solihull (£1.9m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 64%, charitable activities 19% and trading 16%. Charitable activities took 59% of spending and raising funds 28%. Grants to other organisations totalled £957k. Reserves of £134k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate. It employed 47 people.

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.