VWV Charitable Trust

Analysis

VWV Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in December 1987, 39 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, VWV Charitable Trust reported income of £60k and spending of £67k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £18k to £60k (+245%), an average of +36% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 92%. Over the whole period it spent 107% 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, VWV Charitable Trust sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Friends of St Thomas Church Lymington (£60k), The Sue and Lew Hammerson Charitable Trust (£61k) and The Harold Dean Charity (£60k).