The Horace Moore Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Horace Moore Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ascot. It was registered in June 1971, 55 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 Horace Moore Charitable Trust reported income of £12k and spending of £21k, spending 172% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £12k to £12k (+6.6%), an average of +1.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 138% 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 Horace Moore Charitable Trust sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 35th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Kenneth and Julian Layton Charity Trust (£12k), Wrightington Welfare Pensioners Association Mossy Lea Section (£12k) and Province of Worcestershire Mark Benevolent Fund (£12k).

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.