Avir Charitable Trust

Analysis

Avir Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Salford. It was registered in August 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, Avir Charitable Trust reported income of £71k and spending of £107k, spending 151% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £145k to £71k (-51%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 73% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Avir Charitable Trust sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include World Sight Foundation (£71k), Hartlepool Arts Studio Limited (£71k) and Serve Africa (£71k).