The Duff Cooper Memorial Fund

Analysis

The Duff Cooper Memorial Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxford. It was registered in January 1967, 59 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Duff Cooper Memorial Fund reported income of £12k and spending of £21k, spending 182% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £4,296 to £12k (+175%), an average of +29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 158%. Over the whole period it spent 265% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, The Duff Cooper Memorial Fund sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 34th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include New Tyneside Orchestral Society (£12k), The Kensington Chamber Orchestra (£12k) and The Radford Charitable Trust (£12k).

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.