The Albert Van Den Bergh Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Albert Van Den Bergh Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newquay. It was registered in June 1987, 39 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Albert Van Den Bergh Charitable Trust reported income of £89k and spending of £181k, spending 204% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £143k to £89k (-38%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income dropped by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 183% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Albert Van Den Bergh Charitable Trust sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Unite - Carers in Mid Devon (£89k), The Redeemed Christian Church of God Testimony Chapel (£89k) and Hesslewood Children's Trust (Hull Seamen's and General Orphanage) (£89k).

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.