The Basil Brown Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Basil Brown Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in July 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty and animals, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending June 2025, The Basil Brown Charitable Trust reported income of £81k and spending of £72k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £40k to £81k (+104%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 101% 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 Basil Brown Charitable Trust sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Safe Anaesthesia Worldwide (£81k), Old Parish Trust (£81k) and Mere Lecture Hall Trust (£81k).