The Guy Newton Research Fund

Analysis

The Guy Newton Research Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxford. It was registered in July 1967, 59 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, 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 Guy Newton Research Fund reported income of £186k and spending of £481k, spending 259% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £173k to £186k (+7.6%), an average of +1.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 203% 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 Guy Newton Research Fund sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Befriending Refugees and Asylum Seekers (£186k), Peoples Foundation (£186k) and Dallow Development Trust Ltd (£186k).

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.