The Barber Charvet Trust

Analysis

The Barber Charvet Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Essex. It was registered in October 2021, 5 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 organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Barber Charvet Trust reported income of £46k and spending of £164k, spending 359% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2025, income fell from £2.9m to £46k (-98%), an average of -75% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 99%. Over the whole period it spent 32% 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 Barber Charvet Trust sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lincoln Private Investment Office Foundation (£46k), The Haydn Abbott Charitable Trust (£46k) and Rolvenden Village Hall (£46k).

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.