The Coalfields Regeneration Trust

Analysis

The Coalfields Regeneration Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Barnsley. It was registered in March 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, the prevention or relief of poverty and amateur sport, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03738566). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Coalfields Regeneration Trust reported income of £7.4m and spending of £7.3m, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £6.6m to £7.4m (+13%), an average of +3.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 93% 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 Coalfields Regeneration Trust sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Surrey Wellbeing Partnership (£7.4m), Fight for Sight (£7.4m) and Changing Ideas Ltd (£7.3m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 66%, charitable activities 17%, donations and legacies 15% and trading 2.1%. Charitable activities took 63% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Grants to other organisations totalled £908k. Reserves of £4.4m would cover about 7 months of spending at that rate. It employed 56 people.