Thomson-Bree Charitable Trust

Analysis

Thomson-Bree Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leicestershire. It was registered in December 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty and religious activities, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending November 2025, Thomson-Bree Charitable Trust reported income of £264k and spending of £311k, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from November 2021 to November 2025, income grew from £178k to £264k (+48%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to November 2022, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Thomson-Bree Charitable Trust sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pilgrimbandits (£264k), Armenian Ministries (£264k) and West Somerset Methodist Circuit (£264k).

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.