The Pamela Barlow Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Pamela Barlow Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Stratford upon Avon. It was registered in March 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Pamela Barlow Charitable Trust reported income of £15k and spending of £100k, spending 668% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £1.4m to £15k (-99%), an average of -68% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 99%. Over the whole period it spent 124% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Pamela Barlow Charitable Trust sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Yad Miriam (£15k), The Friends of Ross Hospital (£15k) and Turning the Tide (£15k).

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.