Santa Barbara Heights Charitable Trust

Analysis

Santa Barbara Heights Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in May 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Santa Barbara Heights Charitable Trust reported income of £40k and spending of £134k, spending 333% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £12k to £40k (+224%), an average of +34% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 94%. Over the whole period it spent 336% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Santa Barbara Heights Charitable Trust sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Portobello Community Forum (£40k), Braithwell and Micklebring Recreation and Leisure Association (£40k) and Befrienders Worldwide (£40k).

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.