The Cumber Family Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Cumber Family Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Abingdon. It was registered in January 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Cumber Family Charitable Trust reported income of £49k and spending of £134k, spending 272% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £360k to £49k (-86%), an average of -39% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income dropped by 86%. Over the whole period it spent 71% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Cumber Family Charitable Trust sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Trueloves Charitable Trust (£49k), British Medical Laser Association (£49k) and The Rotary Club of Widnes Trust Fund (£49k).

Data notes from the register: The latest annual return was received after its deadline. Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.