The Edward & Catherine Wray Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Edward & Catherine Wray Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in February 2015, 11 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 organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Edward & Catherine Wray Charitable Trust reported income of £99k and spending of £162k, spending 163% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from January 2022 to December 2025, income fell from £173k to £99k (-43%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 401%. Over the whole period it spent 162% 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 Edward & Catherine Wray Charitable Trust sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Kitchen Table Charities Trust (£99k), The Thompson6 Charitable Trust (£99k) and The Jonathan Towler Foundation (£99k).

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.