The Sir Anthony Wharton Rugby Union Football Trust

Analysis

The Sir Anthony Wharton Rugby Union Football Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Derbyshire. It was registered in July 1983, 43 years ago. Its declared purposes cover amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Sir Anthony Wharton Rugby Union Football Trust reported income of £10k and spending of £9,839, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £18k to £10k (-44%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income dropped by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, The Sir Anthony Wharton Rugby Union Football Trust sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 31st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Revel School Friends Association (£10k), Hill West Primary School Parents, Teachers and Friends Association (£10k) and Draycott Millennium Green Trust (£10k).