The Burry Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Burry Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Dorset. It was registered in October 1980, 46 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under children and youth development. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Burry Charitable Trust reported income of £129k and spending of £149k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £1.2m to £129k (-89%), an average of -43% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 93%. Over the whole period it spent 37% of the income it received.

Among 5,641 England and Wales charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, The Burry Charitable Trust sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Kip and Alison Bertram Charitable Trust (£128k), Wansdyke District Scout Council (£130k) and Ford Britain Trust (£128k).

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.