The Cooper Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Cooper Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxford. It was registered in January 1967, 59 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending October 2025, The Cooper Charitable Trust reported income of £18k and spending of £43k, spending 238% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income grew from £12k to £18k (+45%), an average of +9.6% a year. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, The Cooper Charitable Trust sits at the 37th percentile: it is larger than about 37% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Yad Leyad (£18k), Keelman's Way School PTA (£18k) and Borough of Pudsey Charity (£18k).

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.