Cecil Pilkington Charitable Trust

Analysis

Cecil Pilkington Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Liverpool. It was registered in December 1966, 60 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, the prevention or relief of poverty and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending October 2025, Cecil Pilkington Charitable Trust reported income of £539k and spending of £701k, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income grew from £438k to £539k (+23%), an average of +5.3% a year. Over the whole period it spent 140% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Cecil Pilkington Charitable Trust sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The West of England Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre Limited (£538k), AIDS Care Education and Training (£539k) and Action for Community Limited (£538k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 85%. Charitable activities took 0.0% of spending and raising funds 15%.

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.