Frank McGovern Charitable Trust

Analysis

Frank McGovern Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in January 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, overseas aid/famine relief and human rights/religious or racial harmony/equality or diversity, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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, Frank McGovern Charitable Trust reported income of £14k and spending of £25k, spending 180% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £10k to £14k (+33%), an average of +7.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 15%. Over the whole period it spent 271% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Frank McGovern Charitable Trust sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 37th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rotary Club of Shoreham and Southwick Charitable Trust (£14k), Rosehill Wesleyan Reform Church (£14k) and Children's Aid International (Kenya) (£14k).

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.