Miss E F Rathbone Charitable Trust

Analysis

Miss E F Rathbone Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Prescot. It was registered in March 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Miss E F Rathbone Charitable Trust reported income of £406k and spending of £489k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £288k to £406k (+41%), an average of +9.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 65%. Over the whole period it spent 115% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Miss E F Rathbone Charitable Trust sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Derbyshire Dales Council for Voluntary Service (£404k), Release Eritrea (£407k) and Toyota Manufacturing UK Charitable Trust (£404k).

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.