The Barbara Curtis Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Barbara Curtis Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lincoln. It was registered in November 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and other charitable purposes, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Barbara Curtis Charitable Trust reported income of £26k and spending of £32k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £95k to £26k (-72%), an average of -27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 111%. Over the whole period it spent 174% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, The Barbara Curtis Charitable 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 50th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include LA RÉCRÉ (£26k), The Robert Higham Apprenticing Charity (£27k) and St Clements and St James School Trust (£26k).