Public Welfare Trust

Analysis

Public Welfare Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Birmingham. It was registered in April 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Public Welfare Trust reported income of £27k and spending of £32k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £7,215 to £27k (+268%), an average of +39% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 292%. Over the whole period it spent 121% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Public Welfare Trust sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 42% 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 Friends of St James Mission and School Nyamandhlovu (£27k), Devizes and District Phab Club (£27k) and Christoforos Charity Foundation (£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.