The John Rayner Charitable Trust

Analysis

The John Rayner Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Marlborough. It was registered in November 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 organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The John Rayner Charitable Trust reported income of £15k and spending of £58k, spending 373% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £9,037 to £15k (+71%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 209%. Over the whole period it spent 318% 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 John Rayner Charitable Trust sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Colchester Medical Charitable Trust (£15k), The Global Fund for Forgotten People, Order of Malta (£15k) and The Mordens and Litlington Mobile Warden Scheme (£15k).

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.