Turner Dumbrell Foundation

Analysis

Turner Dumbrell Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hassocks. It was registered in July 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, environment/conservation/heritage and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Turner Dumbrell Foundation reported income of £87k and spending of £107k, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £48k to £87k (+83%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Turner Dumbrell Foundation 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 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include UK Infantile Spasms Trust (£87k), British and Irish Association of Robotic Gynaecological Surgeons (£87k) and Living Stones, Eastbourne (£87k).