Woolton Charitable Trust

Analysis

Woolton Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Liverpool. It was registered in September 1962, 64 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Woolton Charitable Trust reported income of £21k and spending of £26k, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £17k to £21k (+24%), an average of +5.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 143% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Woolton Charitable Trust sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 38% 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 Rutland Trust (£21k), Canvey Island Horticultural Society (£21k) and Personal Bridge (£21k).

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.