The Atherton Family Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Atherton Family Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Surrey. It was registered in March 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Atherton Family Charitable Trust reported income of £99k and spending of £71k, leaving 28% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £133k to £99k (-26%), an average of -7.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 111% 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 Atherton Family Charitable Trust sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Stockwell/Cliffe Charitable Trust (£99k), Vedanta Bidyashram (£99k) and Community Food Enterprise Limited (£99k).