The B17 Charitable Trust

Analysis

The B17 Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bury St Edmunds. It was registered in January 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03816246). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The B17 Charitable Trust reported income of £146k and spending of £98k, leaving 33% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £131k to £146k (+11%), an average of +2.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 183%. Over the whole period it spent 72% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, The B17 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 76th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Greenslade Pre-School Playgroup Trust (£146k), The Catharine Mary Scott-Smith Will Trust (£146k) and Sywell and Overstone Pre-School (£146k).