The Spencer Family Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Spencer Family Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Whiteley. It was registered in July 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending September 2025, The Spencer Family Charitable Trust reported income of £16k and spending of £17k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to September 2025, income grew from £6,392 to £16k (+146%), an average of +25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2025, when income rose by 106%. Over the whole period it spent 185% 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 Spencer Family Charitable Trust sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Minster-In-Sheppey Friendship House Trust (£16k), The Friends of St Andrew's Church Alfriston (£16k) and Broad Oak Village Hall (£16k).

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.