The Hawerby Trust

Analysis

The Hawerby Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Grimsby. It was registered in January 2010, 16 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 December 2025, The Hawerby Trust reported income of £27k and spending of £101k, spending 374% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £29k to £27k (-6.6%), an average of -1.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income dropped by 51%. Over the whole period it spent 301% 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 Hawerby Trust sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Church of Christ, Leytonstone Congregation (£27k), The Dennard Family Charitable Trust (£27k) and The Tor Trust (£27k).

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.