The Bryan Foster Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Bryan Foster Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ivybridge. It was registered in April 1991, 35 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, overseas aid/famine relief and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2026, The Bryan Foster Charitable Trust reported income of £18k and spending of £20k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2026, income grew from £15k to £18k (+21%), an average of +4.9% a year. Over the whole period it spent 122% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Bryan Foster Charitable Trust sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Leilai Charitable Trust (£18k), Helena Sant's Residuary Trust Fund (£18k) and The Humanitarian Dialogue Foundation Limited (£18k).

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.