Wheelwrights' Charity

Analysis

Wheelwrights' Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in November 1983, 43 years ago. Its declared purposes cover disability, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Wheelwrights' Charity reported income of £74k and spending of £78k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £56k to £74k (+32%), an average of +7.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 116% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Wheelwrights' Charity sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Warwickshire Wheelchair Basketball Academy (£74k), The Caedmon Company (£74k) and Good Neighbours-Rural Peterborough (£74k).

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.