The Bernhard Heuberger Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Bernhard Heuberger Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in May 1986, 40 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Bernhard Heuberger Charitable Trust reported income of £90k and spending of £427k, spending 473% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £93k to £90k (-2.5%), an average of -0.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 328% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Bernhard Heuberger Charitable Trust sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% 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 The Cedar House Charitable Trust (£90k), The JFH Charitable Trust (£90k) and Janet and Bryan Moore Charitable Trust (£90k).

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.