Holmfield Charitable Trust

Analysis

Holmfield 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, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Holmfield Charitable Trust reported income of £350k and spending of £389k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £176k to £350k (+99%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 127%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Holmfield 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 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Basic Life Charity (£350k), Trace Charitable Trust (£350k) and David Laing Foundation (£350k).

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.