North East Area Miners' Social Welfare Trust Fund

Analysis

North East Area Miners' Social Welfare Trust Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Rotherham. It was registered in April 1975, 51 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending September 2025, North East Area Miners' Social Welfare Trust Fund reported income of £64k and spending of £126k, spending 197% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income grew from £54k to £64k (+18%), an average of +4.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2023, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 295% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, North East Area Miners' Social Welfare Trust Fund sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Qalb Connection (£64k), Downswood Community Association (£64k) and The Bridge Church Retford (£64k).

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.