Rugby Bareboards Trust

Analysis

Rugby Bareboards Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Warwickshire. It was registered in March 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, environment/conservation/heritage and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05217928). It says it provides services and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Rugby Bareboards Trust reported income of £37k and spending of £50k, spending 134% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income fell from £52k to £37k (-29%), an average of -8.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income dropped by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 140% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Rugby Bareboards Trust sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Marvellous Light Ministries International (£37k), Hunslet and Belle Isle Community Project (£37k) and The Redlynch Charitable Trust (£37k).

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.