Sir Harold Hood's Charitable Trust

Analysis

Sir Harold Hood's Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in March 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 organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Sir Harold Hood's Charitable Trust reported income of £740k and spending of £1.0m, spending 136% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £653k to £740k (+13%), an average of +3.2% a year. Over the whole period it spent 122% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Sir Harold Hood's Charitable Trust sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Whitefield Hebrew Congregation (£740k), Plymouth Methodist Central Hall (£742k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Holy Trinity, Leicester (£739k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 100%. Charitable activities took 88% of spending and raising funds 9.9%. Grants to other organisations totalled £882k. Reserves of £33.6m would cover about 393 months of spending at that rate.

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.