Welsh Rugby Charitable Trust

Analysis

Welsh Rugby Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Blackwood. It was registered in December 1972, 54 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and amateur sport, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending November 2025, Welsh Rugby Charitable Trust reported income of £441k and spending of £400k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from November 2021 to November 2025, income fell from £526k to £441k (-16%), an average of -4.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to November 2024, when income rose by 87%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Welsh Rugby Charitable Trust sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include International Islamic Link (£441k), Room to Heal (£442k) and The Cycle (INGO) (£441k).