Robert Bruce Barnes Charitable Trust

Analysis

Robert Bruce Barnes Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in March 2006, 20 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, Robert Bruce Barnes Charitable Trust reported income of £88k and spending of £54k, leaving 39% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income grew from £76k to £88k (+16%), an average of +3.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 188%. Over the whole period it spent 45% 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, Robert Bruce Barnes Charitable Trust sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Leonard Laity Stoate Charity (£88k), The Masonic Province of Middlesex Charitable Trust (£89k) and Lord Mayor of Leeds Appeal Fund (£88k).