Misses Barrie Charitable Trust

Analysis

Misses Barrie Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Devon. It was registered in March 1980, 46 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the advancement of health or saving of lives, arts/culture/heritage/science and amateur sport, 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 2026, Misses Barrie Charitable Trust reported income of £212k and spending of £264k, spending 124% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2026, income fell from £215k to £212k (-1.2%), an average of -0.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 122% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Misses Barrie Charitable Trust sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Giving World (£212k), Liverpool Cancer Care Self Help Group (£212k) and Linc the Leukaemia and Intensive Chemotherapy Fund (£212k).

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.