Colonel W H Whitbread Charitable Trust

Analysis

Colonel W H Whitbread Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxfordshire. It was registered in September 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 organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Colonel W H Whitbread Charitable Trust reported income of £244k and spending of £292k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £235k to £244k (+4.0%), an average of +1.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 117% 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, Colonel W H Whitbread Charitable Trust sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Karin Brass Memorial Fund (£244k), Maria Bjornson Memorial Fund (£244k) and The Hawthorne Charitable Trust (£242k).