Sharing Life Trust

Analysis

Sharing Life Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxfordshire. It was registered in October 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the prevention or relief of poverty, overseas aid/famine relief and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Sharing Life Trust reported income of £114k and spending of £101k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £61k to £114k (+86%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Sharing Life Trust sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Distington Club for Young People (£114k), Brixton Soup Kitchen (£114k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Bury Roch Valley (£114k).