The Woodrow Family Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Woodrow Family Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bedford. It was registered in November 2017, 9 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 individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Woodrow Family Charitable Trust reported income of £19k and spending of £21k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £11k to £19k (+76%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 133% 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 Woodrow Family Charitable Trust sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include VB Charitable Trust (£19k), The Chester Ladies Choir (£19k) and The Tyneholme Trust (£19k).

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.