Gerefa Charitable Trust

Analysis

Gerefa Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Shropshire. It was registered in April 1974, 52 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, arts/culture/heritage/science, animals and environment/conservation/heritage, 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, Gerefa Charitable Trust reported income of £65k and spending of £81k, spending 126% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £95k to £65k (-32%), an average of -9.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Gerefa Charitable Trust sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ls29 Special Needs Support Group (£65k), Carrs Lane Counselling Centre Limited (£65k) and Inside Out for Children (£65k).