The East End Family Trust

Analysis

The East End Family Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newbury. It was registered in January 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the prevention or relief of poverty, overseas aid/famine relief and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The East End Family Trust reported income of £15k and spending of £699k, spending 4664% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £18k to £15k (-17%), an average of -4.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 11518%. Over the whole period it spent 128% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The East End Family Trust sits at the 38th percentile: it is larger than about 38% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Change Programme (£15k), Gateway Into Life (£15k) and The Lothian Saint Anthony Trust (£15k).

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.