The Margaret Rolfe Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Margaret Rolfe Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Epsom. It was registered in August 1976, 50 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability, overseas aid/famine relief and accommodation/housing, 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 2026, The Margaret Rolfe Charitable Trust reported income of £16k and spending of £26k, spending 165% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2026, income fell from £18k to £16k (-9.7%), an average of -2.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2026, when income dropped by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 132% 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 Margaret Rolfe Charitable Trust sits at the 34th percentile: it is larger than about 34% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include South West Regional Anaesthesia Group (£16k), Run Breckland (£16k) and The Children's Orthopaedic and Trauma Fund (£16k).

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.