The W L Pratt Charitable Trust

Analysis

The W L Pratt Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in York. It was registered in October 1968, 58 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, The W L Pratt Charitable Trust reported income of £74k and spending of £82k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £50k to £74k (+49%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 124% 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, The W L Pratt Charitable Trust sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Orrin Charitable Trust (£74k), Dales-Care (£75k) and East Dean and Friston Village Hall Trust (£74k).

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.