Wolverhampton Heritage Trust

Analysis

Wolverhampton Heritage Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wolverhampton. It was registered in August 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment/conservation/heritage and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04347006). It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Wolverhampton Heritage Trust reported income of £10k and spending of £18k, spending 175% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £393 to £10k (+2493%), an average of +126% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 726%. Over the whole period it spent 196% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Wolverhampton Heritage Trust sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Stratford Historic Buildings Trust (£10k), Christ Church Spitalfields Foundation (£10k) and Pagham Flood Defence Trust (£10k).

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.