The Huggard Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Huggard Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Port Talbot. It was registered in July 1987, 39 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability 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 organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Huggard Charitable Trust reported income of £1.1m and spending of £1.2m, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £65k to £1.1m (+1555%), an average of +102% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 2778%. Over the whole period it spent 141% 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 Huggard Charitable Trust sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include People in Need (Pin) UK (£1.1m), Hadassah Medical Relief Association U.k. (£1.1m) and Centre for Ageing Better Trust (£1.1m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 100%. Charitable activities took 12% of spending and raising funds 88%. Grants to other organisations totalled £143k. Reserves of £2.3m would cover about 23 months of spending at that rate.

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.