The Halifax Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Halifax Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in York. It was registered in December 1975, 51 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, environment/conservation/heritage and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Halifax Charitable Trust reported income of £12k and spending of £12k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £7,875 to £12k (+47%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, The Halifax Charitable Trust sits at the 48th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 34th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Friends of St Mary's Bampton (£12k), Airfield Research Group Ltd (£12k) and Nature of Learning Foundation (£11k).