The McCorquodale Charitable Trust

Analysis

The McCorquodale Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in November 1987, 39 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2026, The McCorquodale Charitable Trust reported income of £281k and spending of £343k, spending 122% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2026, income grew from £80k to £281k (+251%), an average of +37% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 608%. Over the whole period it spent 124% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The McCorquodale Charitable Trust sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The G W Cadbury Section Charitable Trust (£280k), The Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames Citizens Advice Bureaux Service (£281k) and Joan Ainslie Charitable Trust (£278k).