The Thoresby Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Thoresby Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newark. It was registered in February 1979, 47 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives 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 March 2025, The Thoresby Charitable Trust reported income of £59k and spending of £64k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £47k to £59k (+25%), an average of +5.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 78% 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 Thoresby Charitable Trust sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Centre for Community Development (£59k), Community Friends of Malton, Norton and District Hospital (£59k) and Hayat Trust (£59k).