The Hemby Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Hemby Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Liverpool. It was registered in December 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, arts/culture/heritage/science and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending January 2026, The Hemby Charitable Trust reported income of £110k and spending of £142k, spending 129% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from January 2022 to January 2026, income grew from £104k to £110k (+5.7%), an average of +1.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to January 2023, when income rose by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 123% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, The Hemby Charitable Trust sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Jane Austen Society (£110k), The Historic Towns Trust (£110k) and William Scott Foundation (£109k).

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.