The Howard Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Howard Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in West Midlands. 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.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Howard Charitable Trust reported income of £93k and spending of £120k, spending 128% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £60k to £93k (+57%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 110% 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 Howard Charitable Trust sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% 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 British Association of Play Therapists (£93k), Eccabi Ltd (£93k) and Alexander Jansons Myocarditis UK (£93k).