The Raven Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Raven Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in July 1990, 36 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 April 2025, The Raven Charitable Trust reported income of £117k and spending of £102k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £118k to £117k (-1.0%), an average of -0.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income dropped by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 89% 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 Raven Charitable Trust sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include M and C Trust (£116k), Kenfig Corporation Trust (£117k) and The Coldstream Guards Association (£116k).