The Buckland Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Buckland Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Carlisle. It was registered in June 1977, 49 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 2026, The Buckland Charitable Trust reported income of £43k and spending of £75k, spending 176% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2026, income grew from £38k to £43k (+14%), an average of +3.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 147% 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 Buckland Charitable Trust sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Gweneth Moxon Charitable Trust (£43k), Horringer - Cum - Ickworth Community Council (£43k) and Hambleden Village Hall (£42k).

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.