The Sandy Dewhirst Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Sandy Dewhirst Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Manchester. It was registered in February 1980, 46 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Sandy Dewhirst Charitable Trust reported income of £47k and spending of £138k, spending 294% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £26k to £47k (+82%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 226% 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 Sandy Dewhirst Charitable Trust sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of All Saints' Church, Pontefract (£47k), The Medical Aid for Poland Fund (£47k) and The Erosive Toothwear Foundation (£47k).

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.