The Beckie and Hettie Charlesworth Memorial Trust

Analysis

The Beckie and Hettie Charlesworth Memorial Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bridgnorth. It was registered in January 1975, 51 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending November 2025, The Beckie and Hettie Charlesworth Memorial Trust reported income of £341k and spending of £13k, leaving 96% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from November 2021 to November 2025, income grew from £14k to £341k (+2376%), an average of +123% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to November 2025, when income rose by 1103%. Over the whole period it spent 22% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Beckie and Hettie Charlesworth Memorial Trust sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lambourn Valley Housing Trust (£341k), Nations Trust (£341k) and Zakariyya Masjid (£340k).