Christopher and Elspeth Thomas Charitable Trust

Analysis

Christopher and Elspeth Thomas Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in St Neots. It was registered in January 1985, 41 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 individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Christopher and Elspeth Thomas Charitable Trust reported income of £18k and spending of £185k, spending 1012% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £10k to £18k (+83%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 385% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Christopher and Elspeth Thomas 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 43rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hit Consults Ltd (£18k), The Alfred and Beatrice Weintrop Charity (£18k) and Kabuyanda Health (£18k).

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.