The Leslie Mary Carter Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Leslie Mary Carter Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ipswich. It was registered in May 1982, 44 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability, animals 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 and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Leslie Mary Carter Charitable Trust reported income of £222k and spending of £265k, spending 119% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £3.0m to £222k (-93%), an average of -48% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 77%. Over the whole period it spent 28% 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 Leslie Mary Carter Charitable Trust sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Healthwatch Camden (£222k), Your Emotional Support Service - Yess (£222k) and Building Schools for Africa (£222k).

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.