Nottingham Diocesan Sick and Retired Priests Fund

Analysis

Nottingham Diocesan Sick and Retired Priests Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Nottingham. It was registered in June 1980, 46 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Nottingham Diocesan Sick and Retired Priests Fund reported income of £37k and spending of £39k, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £399k to £37k (-91%), an average of -45% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 77%. Over the whole period it spent 1139% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Nottingham Diocesan Sick and Retired Priests Fund sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Open Doors Training and Development Trust (£37k), Samaritans of Wigan (£37k) and Joshua Hayday Helping Hand Trust (£37k).