The Heagerty Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Heagerty Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hassocks. It was registered in February 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Heagerty Charitable Trust reported income of £21k and spending of £36k, spending 173% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £15k to £21k (+42%), an average of +9.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 123% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Heagerty Charitable Trust sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 45th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Epra Charitable Trust (£21k), The Eric and Dorothy Leach Charitable Trust (£21k) and The Ashtons Charitable Trust (£21k).