The Hedera Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Hedera Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in December 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 November 2025, The Hedera Charitable Trust reported income of £39k and spending of £50k, spending 127% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from November 2021 to November 2025, income grew from £2,906 to £39k (+1246%), an average of +92% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to November 2024, when income rose by 345%. Over the whole period it spent 246% 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 Hedera Charitable Trust sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Langtree Trust (£39k), Leanne and Winston Newman Charitable Trust (£39k) and The Relief Trust (£39k).