The Park Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Park Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Manchester. It was registered in January 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, the prevention or relief of poverty and religious activities, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Park Charitable Trust reported income of £15k and spending of £24k, spending 159% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £9,949 to £15k (+54%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 136%. Over the whole period it spent 1621% 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 Park 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 Addiscombe Neighbourhood Care Association (£15k), East London Muslim Welfare Society (£15k) and Barbara a Shuttleworth Memorial Trust (£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.