F R Ratcliff Charitable Settlement

Analysis

F R Ratcliff Charitable Settlement is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Worcestershire. It was registered in October 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, F R Ratcliff Charitable Settlement reported income of £68k and spending of £70k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £61k to £68k (+11%), an average of +2.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 102% 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, F R Ratcliff Charitable Settlement sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The James Neill Trust Fund (£68k), Dorset Parent Carer Council (£68k) and The White Oak Charitable Trust (£68k).