Simon Digby Charitable Trust

Analysis

Simon Digby Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Dorset. It was registered in October 1984, 42 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, Simon Digby Charitable Trust reported income of £30k and spending of £27k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £17k to £30k (+80%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 152%. Over the whole period it spent 76% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Simon Digby Charitable Trust sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 52nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Billingshurst Community Transport Limited (£30k), Downs Syndrome Research Foundation Limited (£30k) and Borien Educational Foundation for Southern Africa (Befsa) (£30k).