The Hilary Awdry Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Hilary Awdry Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Devizes. It was registered in November 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 March 2025, The Hilary Awdry Charitable Trust reported income of £110k and spending of £154k, spending 139% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £67k to £110k (+64%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 131% 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 Hilary Awdry Charitable Trust sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Dorfman Foundation (£110k), The Rix-Thompson-Rothenberg Foundation (£111k) and The Pauline Bishop Charitable Trust (£110k).