The Owen Family Trust

Analysis

The Owen Family Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Walsall. 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 the prevention or relief of poverty, 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, The Owen Family Trust reported income of £15k and spending of £64k, spending 428% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £33k to £15k (-55%), an average of -18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income dropped by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 360% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Owen Family Trust sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rotary Club of Hythe Kent Trust Fund (£15k), Upton Village Hall Group (£15k) and Access in Dudley (£15k).

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.