The Chester Clergy Family Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Chester Clergy Family Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Chester. It was registered in March 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending September 2025, The Chester Clergy Family Charitable Trust reported income of £40k and spending of £28k, leaving 31% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income grew from £30k to £40k (+34%), an average of +7.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2023, when income rose by 112%. Over the whole period it spent 56% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Chester Clergy Family Charitable Trust sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Heart of Gissing (£40k), Northwich Community Support (£40k) and The Minner-Scheidemann Charitable Trust (£40k).