The Hull and East Riding Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Hull and East Riding Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in East Yorkshire. It was registered in November 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Hull and East Riding Charitable Trust reported income of £227k and spending of £534k, spending 235% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £140k to £227k (+62%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 218% 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, The Hull and East Riding Charitable Trust sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The B S Charitable Foundation (£226k), Plumstead Community Law Centre Ltd. (£227k) and The John Macleod Charitable Trust (£226k).

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.