The Dunchurch and Thurlaston Community Trust

Analysis

The Dunchurch and Thurlaston Community Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Warwickshire. It was registered in January 1972, 54 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under disability. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Dunchurch and Thurlaston Community Trust reported income of £24k and spending of £37k, spending 154% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £22k to £24k (+11%), an average of +2.7% a year. Over the whole period it spent 186% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, The Dunchurch and Thurlaston Community Trust sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 43% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Goodnews Church, Melksham CIO (£24k), Goleudy Harlech Church (£24k) and Turkish Community Association of Bristol and the South West (£24k).

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.