The Bernadette Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Bernadette Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Chichester. It was registered in September 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover overseas aid/famine relief and religious activities, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Bernadette Charitable Trust reported income of £41k and spending of £75k, spending 181% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £24k to £41k (+70%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 46%. Over the whole period it spent 187% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, The Bernadette Charitable Trust sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Jamia Masjid (£41k), Rotary Shoebox Scheme (£42k) and The Canaan Christian Trust (£41k).

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.