Wessex Medical Trust

Analysis

Wessex Medical Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Southampton. It was registered in January 1978, 48 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Wessex Medical Trust reported income of £182k and spending of £432k, spending 237% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £1.1m to £182k (-84%), an average of -37% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 70%. Over the whole period it spent 60% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Wessex Medical Trust sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hilltop Circle (£182k), Dominican Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus CIO (£182k) and Ruwach Christian Church (£182k).