The Robert Gavron Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Robert Gavron Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hornchurch. It was registered in November 1974, 52 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, disability and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Robert Gavron Charitable Trust reported income of £225k and spending of £698k, spending 310% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £104k to £225k (+116%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 1481%. Over the whole period it spent 128% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, The Robert Gavron Charitable Trust sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Whitby Hidden Impairments Support and Help (£225k), Woodlarks Camp Site Trust (£225k) and St Michael's and Lark Lane Community Association (£225k).

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.