The Unity Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Unity Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in August 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training and the prevention or relief of poverty, 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 2025, The Unity Charitable Trust reported income of £17k and spending of £18k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £51k to £17k (-66%), an average of -24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 1003%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Unity Charitable Trust sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Children for Christ (£17k), Full Gospel Church (£17k) and Binyan Odom (£17k).