THE ROTHLEY TRUST

Registered charity 219849 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Rothley Trust is a grant making trust which makes small grants to charitable organisations and projects in the North East of England. It has been operating since 1959.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£1.0m

Latest spending

£309k

Registered

1966

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £962,789, significantly exceeding the stated policy target of £100,000. The charity reported a net increase in unrestricted funds of £776,195, driven largely by a £772,006 donation from The MEA Trust. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £100,000 (held: £963k)

“The target level of reserves has been set at £100,000 to cover governance costs and to provide sufficient working capital.” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Armstrong Watson Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Julia Brown — Chair (source)
Gillian Allsopp — Trust Secretary (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income

£1.0m

Total spending

£309k

Cost of raising funds

£42k

Reserves (reported)

£962k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~37.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (74% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

ALICE SUSAN BRUNTON · trustee of 2 other charities
GERARD SALVIN
James Garbutt
Julia Brown · trustee of 2 other charities
MICHAEL LITCHFIELD
Michael Spriggs

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£1.0m	£309k
31/03/2024	£265k	£259k
31/03/2023	£254k	£282k
31/03/2022	£198k	£240k
31/03/2021	£197k	£248k

Common questions

Is THE ROTHLEY TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £962,789, significantly exceeding the stated policy target of £100,000. The charity reported a net increase in unrestricted funds of £776,195, driven largely by a £772,006 donation from The MEA Trust. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Armstrong Watson Audit Limited.

Who funds THE ROTHLEY TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE ROTHLEY TRUST as a grant recipient include THE ALTITUDE FOUNDATION, THE CHURCH LADS' AND CHURCH GIRLS' BRIGADE.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE ALTITUDE FOUNDATION	FY2023	£900	funds received to run code co-operatives for the 23-24 year
THE CHURCH LADS' AND CHURCH GIRLS' BRIGADE	FY2023	£120	Disbanded Units

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROTHES CHARITABLE TRUST.

THE ROTHES CHARITABLE TRUST income £148k
THE ROWLETT TRUST income £271k
THE ROAN CHARITABLE TRUST income £192k
THE ROUGHLEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £269k
THE LYNNE AND NIGEL ROSS CHARITABLE TRUST income £284k
C A ROOKES CHARITABLE TRUST income £197k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE ROTHLEY TRUST	£1.0m	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE ROTHES CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£148k	—	above	—	no doubt
THE ROWLETT TRUST FY2024	£271k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE ROAN CHARITABLE TRUST FY2026	£192k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE ROUGHLEY CHARITABLE TRUST FY2024	£269k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE LYNNE AND NIGEL ROSS CHARITABLE TRUST FY2024	£284k	—	above	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.