Heartlink Charitable Trust

Analysis

Heartlink Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Coventry. It was registered in December 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, overseas aid/famine relief and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to organisations and provides human resources.

In the financial year ending September 2025, Heartlink Charitable Trust reported income of £48k and spending of £19k, leaving 60% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income fell from £101k to £48k (-53%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income dropped by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Heartlink Charitable Trust sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Islington Refugee Forum (£48k), Kondanani UK (£48k) and The Redeemed Christian Church of God Bethel Tabernacle (£48k).