The Will Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Will Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in June 1989, 37 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, 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 Will Charitable Trust reported income of £520k and spending of £1.2m, spending 237% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £559k to £520k (-7.0%), an average of -1.8% a year. Over the whole period it spent 228% 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 Will Charitable Trust sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Ickle Pickle Partnership Ltd (£520k), Refugee Resource (£521k) and Commonside Community Development Trust (£520k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 99%. Charitable activities took 94% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Grants to other organisations totalled £1.1m. It employed 2 people.

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.