The Violet Helen Dixon Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Violet Helen Dixon Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in August 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2026, The Violet Helen Dixon Charitable Trust reported income of £36k and spending of £46k, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income grew from £13k to £36k (+164%), an average of +28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 127%. Over the whole period it spent 136% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Violet Helen Dixon Charitable Trust sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Nether Edge Neighbourhood Group (£36k), The Simon Digby (Sherborne) Memorial Trust (£36k) and The Helen Isabella McMorran Charitable Foundation (£35k).

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.