The Stansfield Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Stansfield Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Belfast. It was registered in March 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, overseas aid/famine relief and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Stansfield Charitable Trust reported income of £13k and spending of £70k, spending 537% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £11k to £13k (+14%), an average of +3.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 82%. Over the whole period it spent 360% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Stansfield Charitable Trust sits at the 36th percentile: it is larger than about 36% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Redeemed Christian Church of God Joint Heirs Connections (£13k), Improving Livelihoods Through Cultural Initiatives (Il-Ci) (£13k) and Rawthorpe Community Association (£13k).

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.