R G Hetherington Fund

Analysis

R G Hetherington Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Liverpool. It was registered in August 1965, 61 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 June 2025, R G Hetherington Fund reported income of £22k and spending of £21k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £15k to £22k (+42%), an average of +9.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2024, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 101% 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, R G Hetherington Fund sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Edith and Jack Griffiths Charitable Trust (£22k), Barnsley Churches Drop-In Project (£22k) and Voluntary Action Doncaster (£22k).