The Joyce Brewis Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Joyce Brewis Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Whitley Bay. It was registered in April 2016, 10 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 October 2025, The Joyce Brewis Charitable Trust reported income of £16k and spending of £26k, spending 161% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income grew from £15k to £16k (+3.4%), an average of +0.8% a year. Over the whole period it spent 160% 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 Joyce Brewis Charitable Trust sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Waddingham Village Hall (£16k), The Farrer-Brown Charitable Trust (£16k) and Rotary Club of Norwich St Edmund Charitable Trust Fund (£16k).

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.