The Harris Family Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Harris Family Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in September 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Harris Family Charitable Trust reported income of £71k and spending of £185k, spending 262% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £18k to £71k (+298%), an average of +41% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 147%. Over the whole period it spent 402% 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 Harris Family Charitable Trust sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hayling Voluntary Services (£71k), West Bradford Village Hall (£71k) and Global Poverty Relief (£71k).

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.