Isles of Scilly Charitable Trust comprising the Edward McDonald Fund and the Pilots Widows Fund

Analysis

Isles of Scilly Charitable Trust comprising the Edward McDonald Fund and the Pilots Widows Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Isles of Scilly. It was registered in May 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Isles of Scilly Charitable Trust comprising the Edward McDonald Fund and the Pilots Widows Fund reported income of £29k and spending of £38k, spending 131% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £43k to £29k (-33%), an average of -9.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 62%. Over the whole period it spent 102% 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, Isles of Scilly Charitable Trust comprising the Edward McDonald Fund and the Pilots Widows Fund sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Coulthurst Trust (£29k), Rotary Club of Derby Charitable Trust (£29k) and Great Bromley Village Hall (£29k).

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.