The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Staffordshire. It was registered in October 1981, 45 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust reported income of £91k and spending of £107k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £77k to £91k (+19%), an average of +4.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, The Barbara Whatmore Charitable Trust sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Walsall Bangladeshi Progressive Society (£91k), Herbert Ellis Norris Library and Museum (£91k) and Ice and Fire Theatre Company Limited (£91k).