The Ratcliffe Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Ratcliffe Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Surrey. It was registered in December 1989, 37 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, 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 individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Ratcliffe Charitable Trust reported income of £29k and spending of £47k, spending 166% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £27k to £29k (+7.7%), an average of +1.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 185% 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 Ratcliffe Charitable Trust sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include John Ackroyd Charitable Trust (£29k), Teleeeg (£29k) and Martha Penelope Leggatt for a Parish Hall (£29k).

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.