The Roughley Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Roughley Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Coventry. It was registered in May 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, The Roughley Charitable Trust reported income of £269k and spending of £277k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £229k to £269k (+17%), an average of +4.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 97% 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 Roughley Charitable Trust sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Sir John Ritblat Family Foundation (£267k), New Orford Town Trust (£269k) and The Roly and June Tonge Foundation (£267k).