The Veronica Awdry Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Veronica Awdry Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Devizes. 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 individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Veronica Awdry Charitable Trust reported income of £97k and spending of £116k, spending 119% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £77k to £97k (+25%), an average of +5.8% a year. Over the whole period it spent 114% 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 Veronica Awdry Charitable Trust sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include T B H Brunner's Charitable Trust (£97k), P and C Hickinbotham Charitable Trust (£97k) and Caterham & District Round Table Charitable Trust Fund (£96k).

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.