The Maurice Fry Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Maurice Fry Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Beckenham. It was registered in October 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending September 2025, The Maurice Fry Charitable Trust reported income of £49k and spending of £46k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income grew from £35k to £49k (+40%), an average of +8.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 102% 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, The Maurice Fry Charitable Trust sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Whitewater Charitable Trust (£49k), The Karenza Foundation (£49k) and Horace Charles Burley Will Trust (£49k).