The Carmelite Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Carmelite Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Mill Hill. It was registered in March 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it provides human resources.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Carmelite Charitable Trust reported income of £1.6m and spending of £1.8m, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £2.4m to £1.6m (-33%), an average of -9.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 74%. Over the whole period it spent 85% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The Carmelite Charitable Trust sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mesifta Talmudical College (£1.6m), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Great St Bartholomew (£1.6m) and Calderdale Circuit of the Methodist Church (£1.6m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 51% and investments 30%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £250k. Charitable activities took 83% of spending and raising funds 16%. Reserves of £16.5m would cover about 111 months of spending at that rate. It employed 8 people.