The Inverforth Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Inverforth Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in August 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 December 2025, The Inverforth Charitable Trust reported income of £94k and spending of £966k, spending 1025% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £44k to £94k (+116%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 92%. Over the whole period it spent 519% 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 Inverforth Charitable Trust sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bryn Blaen Community Wind Fund CIO (£94k), Corn Exchange Benevolent Society (£95k) and The Harry Bacon Foundation (£94k).

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.