The R & a Riverdell Trust

Analysis

The R & a Riverdell Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Eastbourne. It was registered in September 2021, 5 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 individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending April 2026, The R & a Riverdell Trust reported income of £37k and spending of £42k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2026, income fell from £1.3m to £37k (-97%), an average of -59% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income dropped by 99%. Over the whole period it spent 7.3% 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 R & a Riverdell Trust sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gerald Leigh Charitable Trust (£37k), Autoimmune Support and Awareness (£37k) and The Peter Courtauld Charitable Trust (£37k).