The Hugh Symons Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Hugh Symons Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Blandford Forum. It was registered in September 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, 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 April 2025, The Hugh Symons Charitable Trust reported income of £314k and spending of £356k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £105k to £314k (+200%), an average of +32% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 191%. Over the whole period it spent 153% 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 Hugh Symons Charitable Trust sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% 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 Woodstock Mikvah Limited (£314k), Vista Twisters (£314k) and Suffolk Accident Rescue Service (£313k).

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.