The C Paul Thackray General Charitable Trust

Analysis

The C Paul Thackray General Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Osbaldwick. It was registered in May 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and environment/conservation/heritage, 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 C Paul Thackray General Charitable Trust reported income of £35k and spending of £61k, spending 173% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £28k to £35k (+28%), an average of +6.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 164% 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 C Paul Thackray General Charitable Trust sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Earsdon and Wellfield Community Association (£35k), Liverpool Society of Anaesthetists (£35k) and The Showmen's Children's Charity (£35k).

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.