The Brown Source Trust

Analysis

The Brown Source Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in January 2016, 10 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 trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending November 2025, The Brown Source Trust reported income of £120k and spending of £109k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from November 2021 to November 2025, income grew from £72k to £120k (+66%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to November 2024, when income rose by 289%. Over the whole period it spent 121% 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 Brown Source Trust sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sacred Giving (£120k), The Martin Bowley Charitable Trust (£120k) and The Joan Lynette Dalton Charitable Trust (£120k).