O.f.m. Capuchin GB Charitable Trust

Analysis

O.f.m. Capuchin GB Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Erith. It was registered in November 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, O.f.m. Capuchin GB Charitable Trust reported income of £1.0m and spending of £1.7m, spending 158% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £785k to £1.0m (+33%), an average of +7.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 146% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, O.f.m. Capuchin GB Charitable Trust sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Broughton Jewish Primary School (Ohel Moshe Yitschok) (£1.0m), The Parish of Saint Paul's Howell Hill with Saint Barnabas Epsom (£1.0m) and The New London Synagogue (£1.0m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 66%, investments 23%, charitable activities 6.6% and trading 1.6%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £996. Charitable activities took 93% of spending and raising funds 4.1%. Grants to other organisations totalled £314k. Reserves of £4.5m would cover about 32 months of spending at that rate. It employed 8 people.

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.