The Borrows Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Borrows Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Surrey. It was registered in February 2011, 15 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 Borrows Charitable Trust reported income of £478k and spending of £742k, spending 155% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £539k to £478k (-11%), an average of -2.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 63%. Over the whole period it spent 133% 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 Borrows Charitable Trust sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gower Street (£478k), Citizens Advice Elmbridge (West) (£481k) and Uggla Family Foundation (£477k).

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.