The David Richard Bell and Rosemary Elizabeth Bell Charitable Trust

Analysis

The David Richard Bell and Rosemary Elizabeth Bell Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Whiteley. It was registered in May 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover disability and religious activities, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending August 2025, The David Richard Bell and Rosemary Elizabeth Bell Charitable Trust reported income of £45k and spending of £48k, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £21k to £45k (+112%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2025, when income rose by 105%. Over the whole period it spent 160% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, The David Richard Bell and Rosemary Elizabeth Bell Charitable Trust sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St Ives Foodbank (£45k), The Chamberlain Highbury Trust (£45k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Saint James, Higher Broughton (£45k).

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.