The Ernest Ingham Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Ernest Ingham Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in September 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Ernest Ingham Charitable Trust reported income of £64k and spending of £83k, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £45k to £64k (+42%), an average of +9.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 135% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Ernest Ingham Charitable Trust sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include International College of Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (£64k), Hull Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Service (£64k) and Live Free Foundation (£64k).

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.