English Holdings Charitable Trust

Analysis

English Holdings Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bury New Road. It was registered in March 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, English Holdings Charitable Trust reported income of £398k and spending of £352k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £1.6m to £398k (-74%), an average of -29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income dropped by 85%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, English Holdings Charitable Trust sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pentecostal City Mission Church (£398k), Catch Leeds (£398k) and Manchester City Mission (£398k).