Seaview Charitable Trust

Analysis

Seaview Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in July 2023, 3 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 April 2026, Seaview Charitable Trust reported income of £102k and spending of £114k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from April 2024 to April 2026, income grew from £21k to £102k (+394%), an average of +122% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income rose by 380%. Over the whole period it spent 133% 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, Seaview 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 71st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Highfields Trust CIO (£102k), The Maurice Marks Charitable Trust (£102k) and Farrer and Co Charitable Trust (£102k).

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.