The Kelly Family Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Kelly Family Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Edinburgh. It was registered in March 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2026, The Kelly Family Charitable Trust reported income of £111k and spending of £150k, spending 135% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income grew from £104k to £111k (+6.4%), an average of +1.6% a year. Over the whole period it spent 145% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Kelly Family Charitable Trust sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% 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 Leyland Trucks Helping Hand (£111k), Arbuthnott Charitable Trust (£111k) and Clancy Charitable Foundation (£111k).

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.