The Wyboston Lakes Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Wyboston Lakes Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bedford. It was registered in April 1990, 36 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, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Wyboston Lakes Charitable Trust reported income of £26k and spending of £57k, spending 217% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £23k to £26k (+14%), an average of +3.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 60%. Over the whole period it spent 121% 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 Wyboston Lakes Charitable Trust sits at the 42nd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Batticaloa Underprivileged Development Society ( B U D S ) (£26k), Romanoff Foundation (£26k) and Y Bont - Supporting you through pregnancy decisions and loss (£26k).