The Mary Homfray Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Mary Homfray Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cardiff. It was registered in August 1977, 49 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Mary Homfray Charitable Trust reported income of £139k and spending of £196k, spending 141% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £126k to £139k (+10%), an average of +2.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 133% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Mary Homfray Charitable Trust sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Morgan Charitable Foundation (£139k), Sound Vision CIO (£139k) and Nai’s House CIO (£139k).

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.