Michael and Shirley Hunt Charitable Trust

Analysis

Michael and Shirley Hunt Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in West Sussex. It was registered in July 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the prevention or relief of poverty and animals, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Michael and Shirley Hunt Charitable Trust reported income of £347k and spending of £92k, leaving 74% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £232k to £347k (+50%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 32% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Michael and Shirley Hunt Charitable Trust sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Starfish Greathearts Foundation (£347k), Family Friends (£348k) and Kingsbury Charity (£347k).