The Peter Black Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Peter Black Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Keighley. It was registered in August 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 2025, The Peter Black Charitable Trust reported income of £11k and spending of £19k, spending 176% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £5,013 to £11k (+112%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 169%. Over the whole period it spent 142% 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 Peter Black Charitable Trust sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include National Association of Official Prison Visitors (£11k), Smallburgh Village Hall and Playing Field (£11k) and Sutton on the Hill Village Hall (£11k).