The Simon Digby (Sherborne) Memorial Trust

Analysis

The Simon Digby (Sherborne) Memorial Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sherborne. It was registered in May 1989, 37 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Simon Digby (Sherborne) Memorial Trust reported income of £36k and spending of £330, leaving 99% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £30k to £36k (+20%), an average of +4.6% a year. Over the whole period it spent 79% 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 Simon Digby (Sherborne) Memorial Trust sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Violet Helen Dixon Charitable Trust (£36k), Milton Abbas Street Fair Trust (£36k) and Nether Edge Neighbourhood Group (£36k).