Grand Order of Water Rats Charities Fund

Analysis

Grand Order of Water Rats Charities Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in September 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Grand Order of Water Rats Charities Fund reported income of £155k and spending of £184k, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £128k to £155k (+21%), an average of +4.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 123% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Grand Order of Water Rats Charities Fund sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include West Hampstead Women's Centre (£155k), Camphill Benevolent Fund (£155k) and The Kenya Kesho Trust (£155k).

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.