The Dean Leigh & Dean Rathbone Charitable Fund

Analysis

The Dean Leigh & Dean Rathbone Charitable Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hereford. It was registered in September 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Dean Leigh & Dean Rathbone Charitable Fund reported income of £17k and spending of £21k, spending 126% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £13k to £17k (+25%), an average of +5.6% a year. Over the whole period it spent 114% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Dean Leigh & Dean Rathbone Charitable Fund sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 34% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Alliance Dance Unit (£17k), Milton Keynes Irish Welfare Support Group (£17k) and Power of Deliverance Ministries (£17k).

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.