Doctor and Mrs Alfred Darlington Charitable Trust

Analysis

Doctor and Mrs Alfred Darlington Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in East Sussex. It was registered in September 1981, 45 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability 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 June 2025, Doctor and Mrs Alfred Darlington Charitable Trust reported income of £62k and spending of £18k, leaving 71% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £49k to £62k (+26%), an average of +5.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Doctor and Mrs Alfred Darlington Charitable Trust sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dt38 Foundation (£62k), Stepping Stone Theatre (£62k) and Keld Resource Centre Ltd (£62k).