The J F Brignall Charitable Trust

Analysis

The J F Brignall Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in East Yorkshire. It was registered in February 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The J F Brignall Charitable Trust reported income of £225k and spending of £264k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £2.9m to £225k (-92%), an average of -47% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 89%. Over the whole period it spent 30% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The J F Brignall Charitable Trust sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sue Young Cancer Support in Leicestershire and Rutland (£225k), The Souster Youth Trust (£225k) and New Hope Global (£225k).

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.