The Pointer Family Trust

Analysis

The Pointer Family Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in September 2009, 17 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 October 2025, The Pointer Family Trust reported income of £197k and spending of £216k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income grew from £181k to £197k (+8.9%), an average of +2.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2024, when income rose by 1140%. Over the whole period it spent 107% 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 Pointer Family Trust sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The du Brow Charity (£196k), The Task Force Trust (£197k) and Payne Gallwey 1989 Charitable Trust (£195k).