Courtlands Charitable Trust

Analysis

Courtlands Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Salford. It was registered in November 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Courtlands Charitable Trust reported income of £56k and spending of £58k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £83k to £56k (-32%), an average of -9.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 129% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Courtlands Charitable Trust sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Burnham/Highbridge Community Association (£56k), House of Grace (£56k) and Bethany Community Outreach (£56k).

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.