Yorkshire Miners' Welfare Trust Fund Scheme

Analysis

Yorkshire Miners' Welfare Trust Fund Scheme is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Rotherham. It was registered in June 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty and other charitable purposes, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Yorkshire Miners' Welfare Trust Fund Scheme reported income of £17k and spending of £48k, spending 282% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £17k to £17k (+1.7%), an average of +0.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income dropped by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 390% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Yorkshire Miners' Welfare Trust Fund Scheme sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St Marys Cockerton Centre (£17k), Amadan (£17k) and The Jyotirnidhi Nyasa Trust (£17k).

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.