The Blackwood Engineering Trust

Analysis

The Blackwood Engineering Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Abertillery. It was registered in August 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, the prevention or relief of poverty and overseas aid/famine relief, 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 Blackwood Engineering Trust reported income of £74k and spending of £79k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £60k to £74k (+23%), an average of +5.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 131% 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 Blackwood Engineering Trust sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Ifakara Bakery Project (£73k), Makers of Playing Cards Charity (£74k) and The Huge Partnership (£73k).

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.