The James Neill Trust Fund

Analysis

The James Neill Trust Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Worksop. It was registered in May 1974, 52 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 March 2025, The James Neill Trust Fund reported income of £68k and spending of £79k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £47k to £68k (+43%), an average of +9.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 114% 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 James Neill Trust Fund sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The White Oak Charitable Trust (£68k), F R Ratcliff Charitable Settlement (£68k) and Joseph Brough Charitable Trust (£67k).

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.