The Charles Skey Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Charles Skey Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in June 1979, 47 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, 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, The Charles Skey Charitable Trust reported income of £351k and spending of £538k, spending 153% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £464k to £351k (-24%), an average of -6.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 116%. Over the whole period it spent 121% 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 Charles Skey Charitable Trust sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Harrow Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre Limited (£351k), Real Aid (£351k) and David Pearlman Charitable Foundation (£351k).

Data notes from the register: The latest annual return was received after its deadline. Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.