The Ray Collins Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Ray Collins Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxfordshire. It was registered in June 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Ray Collins Charitable Trust reported income of £35k and spending of £29k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £84k to £35k (-59%), an average of -20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Ray Collins Charitable Trust sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fifty Plus Aged Eritrean Welfare Association (£35k), Darul Taclim Wal Ifta (£35k) and Porta Trust (£35k).