Harborne and Smethwick Charitable Trust

Analysis

Harborne and Smethwick Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Birmingham. It was registered in March 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 11217433). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Harborne and Smethwick Charitable Trust reported income of £2.0m and spending of £2.0m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £1.5m to £2.0m (+36%), an average of +7.9% a year. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Harborne and Smethwick Charitable Trust sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fairplay (£2.0m), Regional Driving Assessment Centre (£2.0m) and Hammersmith United Charities (£2.0m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 59% and investments 41%. Charitable activities took 86% of spending and raising funds 9.7%. Grants to other organisations totalled £223k. Reserves of £7.0m would cover about 40 months of spending at that rate. It employed 13 people.

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.