Dorema Charitable Trust

Analysis

Dorema Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Amersham. It was registered in May 1983, 43 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2026, Dorema Charitable Trust reported income of £83k and spending of £28k, leaving 66% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2026, income fell from £85k to £83k (-2.9%), an average of -0.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income rose by 256%. Over the whole period it spent 62% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Dorema Charitable Trust sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Arnold and Dorothy Denman Charitable Trust (£83k), G S Plaut Charitable Trust Limited (£83k) and Above & Beyond Cancer Foundation (£82k).