Eva Reckitt Trust Fund

Analysis

Eva Reckitt Trust Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lechlade. It was registered in October 1962, 64 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Eva Reckitt Trust Fund reported income of £42k and spending of £37k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £48k to £42k (-12%), an average of -3.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Eva Reckitt Trust Fund sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Portsmouth Area Regeneration Trust (£42k), The United Church of St Paul's Balsall Heath (Anglican and Urc) (£42k) and Lsa Charitable Trust (£42k).