The Christopher and Henry Oldfield Trust

Analysis

The Christopher and Henry Oldfield Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sittingbourne. It was registered in April 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the prevention or relief of poverty, arts/culture/heritage/science and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Christopher and Henry Oldfield Trust reported income of £334k and spending of £1.1m, spending 338% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £1.0m to £334k (-67%), an average of -24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 86%. Over the whole period it spent 286% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Christopher and Henry Oldfield Trust sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include M St J Way Charitable Trust (£334k), The United Charities (£334k) and Sachkhand Nanak Dham (Darshan Darbar) UK (£333k).

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.