O'brien Charitable Trust

Analysis

O'brien Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leamington Spa. It was registered in December 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under children and youth development. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, O'brien Charitable Trust reported income of £66k and spending of £68k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £33k to £66k (+99%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 46%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 5,641 England and Wales charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, O'brien Charitable Trust sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include World Cancer Care (£66k), The Williams-Gray Foundation (£66k) and Helping Others Positively Engaged in Community (£66k).

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.