The Cestrian Lodge Charity Fund

Analysis

The Cestrian Lodge Charity Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Chester. It was registered in December 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, 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 December 2025, The Cestrian Lodge Charity Fund reported income of £20k and spending of £24k, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £30k to £20k (-33%), an average of -9.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 120% 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 Cestrian Lodge Charity Fund sits at the 37th percentile: it is larger than about 37% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hazel and Leslie Peskin Charitable Trust (£20k), Tabitha Trust (£20k) and Clawar Association Limited (£20k).