Hawksbee Charitable Trust

Analysis

Hawksbee Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Whiteley. It was registered in May 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and animals, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Hawksbee Charitable Trust reported income of £13k and spending of £17k, spending 133% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £6,351 to £13k (+98%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 75%. Over the whole period it spent 287% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Hawksbee Charitable Trust sits at the 31st percentile: it is larger than about 31% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 35th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Helping Lives (£13k), Gentle Birth Method Foundation (£13k) and Grimsdale Charitable Trust (£13k).

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.