The Farrer-Brown Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Farrer-Brown Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Berkshire. It was registered in October 1973, 53 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 Farrer-Brown Charitable Trust reported income of £16k and spending of £18k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £15k to £16k (+3.1%), an average of +0.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 109% 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 Farrer-Brown Charitable Trust sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Joyce Brewis Charitable Trust (£16k), Whittington Village Hall (£16k) and Waddingham Village Hall (£16k).