Davis-Rubens Charitable Trust

Analysis

Davis-Rubens Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Chelmsford. It was registered in April 1972, 54 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, Davis-Rubens Charitable Trust reported income of £30k and spending of £34k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £18k to £30k (+68%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 133% 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, Davis-Rubens Charitable Trust sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 52nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Spring Trust (£30k), Hydro Muscles Limited (£30k) and Royston U3a (£30k).

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.