The Bowles Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Bowles Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Tonbridge. It was registered in November 2022, 4 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 2026, The Bowles Charitable Trust reported income of £94k and spending of £28k, leaving 71% of income unspent that year. Across the 3 years on record, from April 2024 to April 2026, income fell from £263k to £94k (-64%), an average of -40% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income dropped by 71%. Over the whole period it spent 15% 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 Bowles Charitable Trust sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include HCR Law Charitable Trust (£94k), The Harry Bacon Foundation (£94k) and Memon Association Leicester Limited (£94k).