Charity of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence Including the Rowse Bequest

Analysis

Charity of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence Including the Rowse Bequest is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in St Agnes. It was registered in April 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending October 2025, Charity of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence Including the Rowse Bequest reported income of £12k and spending of £11k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income fell from £14k to £12k (-16%), an average of -4.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2024, when income dropped by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Charity of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence Including the Rowse Bequest sits at the 30th percentile: it is larger than about 30% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 34th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pashtun Trust (£12k), Amoria Bond Charitable Trust (£12k) and The John Howard & Denise Frances Merry Charitable Trust (£12k).