The Yercombe (Gloucestershire) Trust

Analysis

The Yercombe (Gloucestershire) Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Dursley. It was registered in March 1972, 54 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Yercombe (Gloucestershire) Trust reported income of £728k and spending of £806k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £521k to £728k (+40%), an average of +8.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 118% 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 Yercombe (Gloucestershire) Trust sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Clock Tower Sanctuary (£728k), Lee-On-The-Solent Community Association (£728k) and The Leonard and Suzanne Phillips Foundation (£727k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 91%, investments 4.8% and donations and legacies 4.6%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.4%. Reserves of £56k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate. It employed 33 people.

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.