The Costa Family Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Costa Family Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Peterborough. It was registered in January 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Costa Family Charitable Trust reported income of £103k and spending of £149k, spending 145% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £80k to £103k (+28%), an average of +6.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 290%. Over the whole period it spent 107% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The Costa Family Charitable Trust sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% 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 Birstall Methodist Church (£103k), Carterton Community Centre (£103k) and B-Less (£103k).

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.