Beyond Finance Charitable Trust

Analysis

Beyond Finance Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Buckinghamshire. It was registered in June 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, overseas aid/famine relief and religious activities, 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 April 2025, Beyond Finance Charitable Trust reported income of £87k and spending of £95k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £116k to £87k (-25%), an average of -7.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income dropped by 65%. Over the whole period it spent 114% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Beyond Finance Charitable Trust sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include SPS Cambodian Foundation Ltd (£87k), The Endowment Fund for Tacri (£87k) and Church Road Methodist Church (£87k).

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.