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The Bill Stickland Fund

RegisteredRegistered charity number 801076DorsetGrant-making and general purposes
Income£18k2025-12-31
Spending£12ksame year
Spent / received88%5-year average
Size in its cause54th pctGrant-making and general purposes
Registered1989Other
Employees–latest return

Analysis

The Bill Stickland Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Dorset. It was registered in March 1989, 37 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Bill Stickland Fund reported income of £18k and spending of £12k, leaving 32% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £12k to £18k (+42%), an average of +9.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Bill Stickland Fund sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Ettling Charitable Trust (£18k), The Royal Air Forces Association - Worthing Branch (£18k) and The Rowland St Oswald 1984 Charitable Settlement (£18k).

Income and spending

£0£6,218£12k£19k£25k2021 Income: £12,4142021 Spending: £11,67020212022 Income: £12,9752022 Spending: £13,80220222023 Income: £16,5982023 Spending: £16,92520232024 Income: £24,8722024 Spending: £19,50020242025 Income: £17,6092025 Spending: £12,0002025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

Under the terms of the Will of the late Bill Stickland the Charity receives investment income and property rent from the capital sum and property that form a Trust fund. The Charity is mandated by the Will to pass all net proceeds to the Lions Club of Wimborne & Ferndown of which Bill Stickland was a member. The Lions Club is the only organisation to which the Charity can make donations.

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
The Ettling Charitable TrustBristol£18k
The Royal Air Forces Association - Worthing BranchWest Sussex£18k
The Rowland St Oswald 1984 Charitable SettlementHull£18k
The Rotary Club of Carlton Trust FundNottingham£18k