Dollond Charitable Trust

Analysis

Dollond Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in January 1986, 40 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 organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Dollond Charitable Trust reported income of £1.6m and spending of £2.3m, spending 142% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £1.1m to £1.6m (+46%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 78%. Over the whole period it spent 154% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Dollond Charitable Trust sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Royal Entomological Society of London (£1.6m), The Headley Trust (£1.6m) and Tynedale Hospice at Home (£1.6m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 100%. Charitable activities took 90% of spending and raising funds 8.9%. Grants to other organisations totalled £2.0m.

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.