The Spear Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Spear Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hertford. It was registered in October 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, overseas aid/famine relief and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Spear Charitable Trust reported income of £55k and spending of £165k, spending 301% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £109k to £55k (-50%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income dropped by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 578% 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 Spear Charitable Trust sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include British Society for Ecological Medicine (£55k), British Society of Special Care Dentistry (£55k) and The British Association for the Study of Headache (£55k).

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.