The Christopher H R Reeves Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Christopher H R Reeves Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Northamptonshire. It was registered in February 1974, 52 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under children and youth development. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Christopher H R Reeves Charitable Trust reported income of £67k and spending of £69k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £52k to £67k (+27%), an average of +6.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 132% of the income it received.

Among 5,641 England and Wales charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, The Christopher H R Reeves Charitable Trust sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Williams-Gray Foundation (£66k), Stoke on Trent Lions Club (CIO) (£67k) and O'brien Charitable Trust (£66k).

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.