The Marcella and Claude Digby Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Marcella and Claude Digby Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in September 1962, 64 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and religious activities, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Marcella and Claude Digby Charitable Trust reported income of £24k and spending of £25k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £16k to £24k (+52%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The Marcella and Claude Digby Charitable Trust sits at the 36th percentile: it is larger than about 36% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Stevenage World Forum for Ethnic Communities (£24k), Northfields Community Association (£24k) and Shire and Soke - Churches Together in Northamptonshire and Peterborough (£24k).