The Ada Hillard Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Ada Hillard Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Whiteley. It was registered in July 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Ada Hillard Charitable Trust reported income of £329k and spending of £595k, spending 181% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to December 2025, income grew from £285k to £329k (+15%), an average of +3.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 152% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Ada Hillard Charitable Trust sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Child Accident Prevention Trust (£329k), Keswick Community Rugby Trust Limited (£330k) and Southend Hospital Foundation (£329k).

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.