Blackfriars Overseas Aid Trust

Analysis

Blackfriars Overseas Aid Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxford. It was registered in February 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, overseas aid/famine relief and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Blackfriars Overseas Aid Trust reported income of £97k and spending of £90k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £92k to £97k (+5.1%), an average of +1.3% a year. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Blackfriars Overseas Aid Trust sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 62% 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 Saint Petrox Trust Lands (£97k), Medical and Educational Aid to Kenya (£97k) and British Society of Toxicological Pathology (£96k).