Castlebrook Charitable Trust

Analysis

Castlebrook Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Manchester. It was registered in September 2014, 12 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 individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Castlebrook Charitable Trust reported income of £25k and spending of £48k, spending 191% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £197k to £25k (-87%), an average of -40% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 100%. Over the whole period it spent 73% 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, Castlebrook Charitable Trust sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include D and H Charitable Trust (£25k), The Pipeline Trust (£25k) and The Robert and Roger Shine Charitable Trust (£25k).

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.