Dartington North Devon Charitable Trust

Analysis

Dartington North Devon Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Barnstaple. It was registered in June 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, arts/culture/heritage/science, environment/conservation/heritage and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, provides human resources and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Dartington North Devon Charitable Trust reported income of £20k and spending of £23k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £14k to £20k (+44%), an average of +9.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 94%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Dartington North Devon Charitable Trust sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include All Hands on Deck Hamford PTA (£20k), The Arts Society Bury St Edmunds (£20k) and Pembroke College Oxford JCR Art Collection Fund (£20k).

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.