The Brenda Lorraine Thomas Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Brenda Lorraine Thomas Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Whiteley. It was registered in November 1999, 27 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 September 2025, The Brenda Lorraine Thomas Charitable Trust reported income of £25k and spending of £31k, spending 127% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to September 2025, income grew from £9,020 to £25k (+174%), an average of +29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2025, when income rose by 98%. Over the whole period it spent 175% 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 Brenda Lorraine Thomas 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 49th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Standfield Charitable Trust (£25k), Hypercharged Foundation (£25k) and Coleshill Village Hall (£25k).

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.