The P B Dumbell Charitable Trust

Analysis

The P B Dumbell Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Shropshire. It was registered in June 1969, 57 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 P B Dumbell Charitable Trust reported income of £53k and spending of £70k, spending 132% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £48k to £53k (+8.7%), an average of +2.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 111% 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 P B Dumbell Charitable Trust sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pakistan Community Centre (£53k), Sherborne Classic Cars CIO (£53k) and The Moira Fund (£52k).

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.