The Cornwall Retired Clergy, Widows of the Clergy and Their Dependants Fund

Analysis

The Cornwall Retired Clergy, Widows of the Clergy and Their Dependants Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Truro. It was registered in June 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Cornwall Retired Clergy, Widows of the Clergy and Their Dependants Fund reported income of £12k and spending of £15k, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £10k to £12k (+14%), an average of +3.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 154% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Cornwall Retired Clergy, Widows of the Clergy and Their Dependants Fund sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 34th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Refilwe (£12k), Africa's Mustard Seed (£12k) and The William Henry Hofmeyer Fund (£12k).

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.