Hinchley Charitable Trust

Analysis

Hinchley Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Gloucestershire. It was registered in March 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and religious activities, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05353283). It says it makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Hinchley Charitable Trust reported income of £106k and spending of £172k, spending 162% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income fell from £151k to £106k (-30%), an average of -8.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2024, when income dropped by 45%. Over the whole period it spent 155% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Hinchley Charitable Trust sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rushmere Baptist Church (£106k), St Mary's Church, Watton (£106k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Fulford, York (£106k).

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.