The Coventry and District Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Coventry and District Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Warwickshire. It was registered in December 1973, 53 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and amateur sport, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Coventry and District Charitable Trust reported income of £11k and spending of £32k, spending 278% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £71 to £11k (+16052%), an average of +256% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 3384%. Over the whole period it spent 440% 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 Coventry and District Charitable Trust sits at the 29th percentile: it is larger than about 29% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 34th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Gordon Trust (£11k), Bosom Friends (Bradford) (£11k) and Byfleet Community Action (£11k).

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.