Doris Field Charitable Trust

Analysis

Doris Field Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxford. It was registered in July 1990, 36 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 August 2025, Doris Field Charitable Trust reported income of £555k and spending of £596k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £414k to £555k (+34%), an average of +7.6% a year. Over the whole period it spent 110% 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, Doris Field Charitable Trust sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation (£555k), Richer Sounds Foundation (£560k) and The Neil and Alison Ostrer Foundation (£554k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 99%. Charitable activities took 59% of spending and raising funds 30%. Grants to other organisations totalled £326k. Reserves of £42k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate.

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.