Carr-Ellison Family Charitable Trust

Analysis

Carr-Ellison Family Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Northumberland. It was registered in June 1962, 64 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 March 2025, Carr-Ellison Family Charitable Trust reported income of £78k and spending of £61k, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £51k to £78k (+54%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 1681%. Over the whole period it spent 25% 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, Carr-Ellison Family Charitable Trust sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Henry James Sayer Charity (£78k), Knoll Community Association (£78k) and Vovos Better World Fund (£78k).