The Frederick & Phyllis Cann Trust

Analysis

The Frederick & Phyllis Cann Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Northampton. It was registered in August 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the prevention or relief of poverty and animals, 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, The Frederick & Phyllis Cann Trust reported income of £72k and spending of £87k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £587k to £72k (-88%), an average of -41% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 84%. Over the whole period it spent 45% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Frederick & Phyllis Cann Trust sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Discovery Church Wroughton (£72k), Cross-Links Dover (£72k) and Wilmslow Wells for Africa (£72k).

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.