The Ballinger Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Ballinger Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It was registered in November 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under children and youth development. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06428200). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Ballinger Charitable Trust reported income of £1.2m and spending of £4.6m, spending 400% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £1.2m to £1.2m (-4.3%), an average of -1.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 1640%. Over the whole period it spent 60% of the income it received.

Among 5,641 England and Wales charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, The Ballinger Charitable Trust sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include East Surrey Domestic Abuse Services (Esdas) (£1.2m), Tees Valley Community Foundation (£1.2m) and Derbyshire Community Foundation (£1.1m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 99%. Charitable activities took 95% of spending and raising funds 4.5%. Grants to other organisations totalled £4.4m. Reserves of £59.7m would cover about 154 months of spending at that rate. It employed 1 people.

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.