Rycroft Children's Fund

Analysis

Rycroft Children's Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Rochdale. It was registered in November 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, 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 March 2026, Rycroft Children's Fund reported income of £52k and spending of £53k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income grew from £36k to £52k (+43%), an average of +9.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 173%. Over the whole period it spent 182% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Rycroft Children's 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 61st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Co-Masonic Benevolent Fund (£52k), The Constance Paterson Charitable Foundation (£52k) and Luton Turkish Community Association (£52k).

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.