The Verdon-Smith Family Charitable Settlement

Analysis

The Verdon-Smith Family Charitable Settlement is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Gloucestershire. It was registered in July 1982, 44 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 Verdon-Smith Family Charitable Settlement reported income of £28k and spending of £30k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £23k to £28k (+22%), an average of +5.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 24%. 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 Verdon-Smith Family Charitable Settlement sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 43% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include College of Healing Limited (£28k), Mission Divine Flame (£28k) and Bawar Association in Coventry (£28k).