H Shawdon Charitable Trust

Analysis

H Shawdon Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in February 1972, 54 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 2026, H Shawdon Charitable Trust reported income of £15k and spending of £15k, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2026, income grew from £14k to £15k (+4.8%), an average of +1.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 275%. Over the whole period it spent 133% 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, H Shawdon Charitable Trust sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ballingate Charitable Trust (£15k), Douglas Glanfield Memorial Trust (£15k) and Rotary Club of Burgess Hill and District Trust Fund (£15k).