The Orkney Cherry Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Orkney Cherry Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in October 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending September 2025, The Orkney Cherry Charitable Trust reported income of £22k and spending of £31k, spending 143% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income grew from £3,221 to £22k (+573%), an average of +61% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 312%. Over the whole period it spent 89% 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 Orkney Cherry Charitable Trust sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Daniel Baird Foundation (£22k), Arreton Community Hall (£22k) and the St Aubyn Foundation (£22k).