Barlestone Community Development Trust

Analysis

Barlestone Community Development Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Nuneaton. It was registered in February 1974, 52 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 March 2025, Barlestone Community Development Trust reported income of £22k and spending of £17k, leaving 23% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £1,942 to £22k (+1048%), an average of +84% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 353%. Over the whole period it spent 73% 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, Barlestone Community Development Trust sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Johnson Group Cleaners Charity (£22k), Rotary Club of Brentwood a Becket Trust Fund (£22k) and Bromsgrove Day Centre (£22k).