Millward Charitable Trust

Analysis

Millward Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Warwickshire. It was registered in April 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Millward Charitable Trust reported income of £47k and spending of £106k, spending 227% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £24k to £47k (+98%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 350% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Millward Charitable Trust sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Oxford Harmonic Choir (£47k), The South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts (£47k) and War Memorial Hall (£47k).

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.