May Hearnshaw Charitable Trust

Analysis

May Hearnshaw Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sheffield. It was registered in February 1992, 34 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, May Hearnshaw Charitable Trust reported income of £101k and spending of £102k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £74k to £101k (+38%), an average of +8.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, May Hearnshaw Charitable Trust sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Central London Youth Development Trust (£101k), Stanhope Community Association (£101k) and Age Concern Flackwell Heath and Loudwater (£101k).