Heath Charitable Trust

Analysis

Heath Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in West Sussex. It was registered in December 1978, 48 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, accommodation/housing and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Heath Charitable Trust reported income of £12k and spending of £20k, spending 159% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £13k to £12k (-6.4%), an average of -1.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 56% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Heath Charitable Trust sits at the 36th percentile: it is larger than about 36% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 35th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Almshouse Charity of Letitia Cornwallis (£12k), The Timothy Trust (£12k) and John Dorkin's Charity (£12k).