The Overstall Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Overstall Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Middlesex. It was registered in September 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Overstall Charitable Trust reported income of £35k and spending of £99k, spending 286% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £337 to £35k (+10150%), an average of +218% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 100%. Over the whole period it spent 374% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, The Overstall 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 55th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friend and Family of Highfields And/Or F.f.h (£35k), The Robertson Bursary Trust (£35k) and Boldmere Schools PTA (£35k).

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.