Bdo Charitable Trust

Analysis

Bdo Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in November 1979, 47 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 individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Bdo Charitable Trust reported income of £50k and spending of £67k, spending 134% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £788 to £50k (+6245%), an average of +182% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 9418%. Over the whole period it spent 123% 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, Bdo Charitable Trust sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Law Rocks Foundation (£50k), Yoti Charitable Foundation (£50k) and The Kenn Centre (£50k).