The Dla Piper Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Dla Piper Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sheffield. It was registered in October 1986, 40 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 2025, The Dla Piper Charitable Trust reported income of £86k and spending of £93k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £104k to £86k (-17%), an average of -4.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 180%. Over the whole period it spent 97% 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 Dla Piper Charitable Trust sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Kobler Trust (£86k), The Empowerment Group (£86k) and The Holloway Foundation (£86k).