The Rockley Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Rockley Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Dorset. It was registered in May 1969, 57 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 December 2025, The Rockley Charitable Trust reported income of £89k and spending of £91k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £80k to £89k (+12%), an average of +2.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 119% 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 Rockley Charitable Trust sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include LC Taussig Charitable Trust (£89k), The Gledswood Charitable Trust (£89k) and Chartered Institute of Building Benevolent Fund Limited (£89k).

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.