The Combined Cutlers Company Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Combined Cutlers Company Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sheffield. It was registered in April 1981, 45 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending September 2025, The Combined Cutlers Company Charitable Trust reported income of £49k and spending of £86k, spending 175% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income fell from £60k to £49k (-17%), an average of -4.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2024, when income dropped by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 167% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Combined Cutlers Company Charitable Trust sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include South Chard Church (£49k), Town Lands Charity (£49k) and The Retired Ministers' and Widows' Fund (£49k).

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.