Holliday Charitable Trust

Analysis

Holliday Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Tonbridge. It was registered in September 1980, 46 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2024, Holliday Charitable Trust reported income of £38k and spending of £57k, spending 152% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2024, income fell from £1.2m to £38k (-97%), an average of -68% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 96%. Over the whole period it spent 69% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Holliday Charitable Trust sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Foursquare Gospel Church, Essex (£38k), Afghan Society in the West Midlands (£38k) and First Growth (£38k).

Data notes from the register: The regulator lists this charity's latest annual return or accounts as overdue. Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.