The Freshgate Trust Foundation

Analysis

The Freshgate Trust Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sheffield. It was registered in April 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 00371489). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Freshgate Trust Foundation reported income of £83k and spending of £154k, spending 186% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £121k to £83k (-32%), an average of -9.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 142% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Freshgate Trust Foundation sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Charis Ministries Africa (£83k), Sisters of Christ UK Development Fund Charity (£83k) and Celestial Church of Christ Horeb of God Parish (£83k).

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.