The Fitzwilliam Wentworth Amenity Trust

Analysis

The Fitzwilliam Wentworth Amenity Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Rotherham. It was registered in May 1979, 47 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, accommodation/housing, arts/culture/heritage/science and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under housing and shelter. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides buildings/facilities/open space and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Fitzwilliam Wentworth Amenity Trust reported income of £2.1m and spending of £2.3m, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £1.8m to £2.1m (+17%), an average of +4.0% a year. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 2,324 England and Wales charities whose main cause is housing and shelter and that reported income, The Fitzwilliam Wentworth Amenity Trust sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hillbrook Grange Residential Care Home (£2.1m), YMCA Essex (£2.1m) and Sir Malcolm Stewart Bart General Charitable Trust (£2.1m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 99% and investments 1.1%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.2%. Grants to other organisations totalled £14k. Reserves of £46.0m would cover about 241 months of spending at that rate. It employed 5 people.