J and M Britton Charitable Trust

Analysis

J and M Britton Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wotton-Under-Edge. It was registered in August 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, J and M Britton Charitable Trust reported income of £77k and spending of £263k, spending 344% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £58k to £77k (+32%), an average of +7.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 632%. Over the whole period it spent 155% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, J and M Britton Charitable Trust sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sponsor a Gambian Child (£77k), Medway Vineyard Church (£77k) and Stanley and Brocklehurst Almshouses (£77k).