The John Ashlin Cutforth Charitable Trust

Analysis

The John Ashlin Cutforth Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ambleside. It was registered in February 1969, 57 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, 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 April 2025, The John Ashlin Cutforth Charitable Trust reported income of £19k and spending of £23k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £17k to £19k (+17%), an average of +4.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 123% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The John Ashlin Cutforth 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 44th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Missing Kind (£19k), Camelford Village Hall (£19k) and Stretton on Dunsmore Charities (£19k).

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.