The Joan Lamb Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Joan Lamb Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Birmingham. It was registered in April 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Joan Lamb Charitable Trust reported income of £12k and spending of £14k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £9,431 to £12k (+28%), an average of +6.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The Joan Lamb Charitable Trust sits at the 25th percentile: it is larger than about 25% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 35th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Idle Spiritualist Church (£12k), Buckland Chapel Trust (£12k) and Hope Evangelical Church (£12k).

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.