The R S Brownless Charitable Trust

Analysis

The R S Brownless Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Reading. It was registered in September 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, 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 July 2025, The R S Brownless Charitable Trust reported income of £44k and spending of £54k, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income grew from £44k to £44k (+1.4%), an average of +0.4% a year. Over the whole period it spent 130% 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 R S Brownless Charitable Trust sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The James Capel Foundation (£44k), The Tag Foundation for Social Development (£44k) and Free From Fear (£44k).

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.