The Tomlinson Family Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Tomlinson Family Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in July 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending July 2025, The Tomlinson Family Charitable Trust reported income of £284k and spending of £217k, leaving 24% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income grew from £194k to £284k (+46%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2022, when income rose by 74%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Tomlinson Family Charitable Trust sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include I Waqf Charitable Trust (£283k), The Lounge Foundation (£285k) and Be Global Foundation (£282k).