Mrs Pat Ripley's Charitable Trust

Analysis

Mrs Pat Ripley's Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wadebridge. It was registered in September 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 individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Mrs Pat Ripley's Charitable Trust reported income of £26k and spending of £27k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £23k to £26k (+14%), an average of +3.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 117% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Mrs Pat Ripley's Charitable Trust sits at the 42nd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Daniel Wilkinson Foundation (£26k), Golden Sunset Trust (£26k) and Rise Foundation Leicestershire (£26k).

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.