Owen Highway Trust

Analysis

Owen Highway Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in West Midlands. It was registered in April 1967, 59 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Owen Highway Trust reported income of £18k and spending of £28k, spending 156% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £234 to £18k (+7463%), an average of +195% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 1354%. Over the whole period it spent 141% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Owen Highway Trust sits at the 36th percentile: it is larger than about 36% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Charity Known As the Welford Village Hall (£18k), Rotary Club of Ascot Charitable Trust Fund (£18k) and Ambulance Responder Team (£18k).