The Holbeck Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Holbeck Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Huntington. It was registered in March 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 07963012). It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Holbeck Charitable Trust reported income of £44k and spending of £103k, spending 234% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £81k to £44k (-46%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income dropped by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 462% 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 Holbeck Charitable Trust sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Devonshires Foundation (£44k), The Gough Charitable Trust (£44k) and Rotary Club of Milton Keynes Charitable Trust Fund (£44k).

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.