W F Southall Trust

Analysis

W F Southall Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hebden Bridge. It was registered in December 1963, 63 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 2025, W F Southall Trust reported income of £286k and spending of £353k, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £251k to £286k (+14%), an average of +3.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 149% 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, W F Southall Trust sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Lounge Foundation (£285k), Banham Foundation Limited (£286k) and The Tomlinson Family Charitable Trust (£284k).

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.