The Carmona Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Carmona Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Salford. It was registered in January 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Carmona Charitable Trust reported income of £438k and spending of £230k, leaving 48% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £477k to £438k (-8.2%), an average of -2.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 529%. Over the whole period it spent 70% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The Carmona Charitable Trust sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include CLC International Office (£438k), The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain Cambridgeshire Area Quaker Meeting Charities (£439k) and PCC of All Hallows Bromley by Bow (£438k).