The Ratcliffian Association and Cunningham Fund

Analysis

The Ratcliffian Association and Cunningham Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leamington Spa. It was registered in September 1967, 59 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Ratcliffian Association and Cunningham Fund reported income of £32k and spending of £66k, spending 208% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £22k to £32k (+46%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 277% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, The Ratcliffian Association and Cunningham Fund sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Maths Society (£32k), South Farnham Infants Parent Andteacher Association (Sfipta) (£32k) and Littlehampton U3a (£32k).

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.