The Hobhouse Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Hobhouse Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Winchester. It was registered in April 1964, 62 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, The Hobhouse Charitable Trust reported income of £23k and spending of £22k, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £6,907 to £23k (+229%), an average of +35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 122%. Over the whole period it spent 102% 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, The Hobhouse Charitable Trust sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St Albans Good Neighbour Scheme (£23k), Coggeshall Companionship Association (£23k) and The Kel Trust (£23k).