The Kendrick and Sylvia Edwards Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Kendrick and Sylvia Edwards Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Shrewsbury. It was registered in February 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover 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 April 2026, The Kendrick and Sylvia Edwards Charitable Trust reported income of £16k and spending of £14k, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2026, income fell from £17k to £16k (-5.4%), an average of -1.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 79% 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 Kendrick and Sylvia Edwards Charitable Trust sits at the 34th percentile: it is larger than about 34% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bk's Heroes (£16k), South and Mid Wales Cave Rescue Team/Tim Achub Ogofau de a Chanolbarth Cymru (£16k) and Local Epileptics Friends Association (£16k).