D C R Allen Charitable Trust

Analysis

D C R Allen Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Banbury. It was registered in February 1979, 47 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, D C R Allen Charitable Trust reported income of £153k and spending of £164k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £174k to £153k (-12%), an average of -3.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income dropped by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 93% 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, D C R Allen Charitable Trust sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Godinton Charitable Trust (£153k), The Jenour Foundation (£154k) and Gransden and District Agricultural Society (£153k).