Alt Valley Community Trust Limited

Analysis

Alt Valley Community Trust Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Liverpool. It was registered in February 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science, amateur sport and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04275541). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Alt Valley Community Trust Limited reported income of £1.6m and spending of £2.3m, spending 137% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income fell from £2.2m to £1.6m (-26%), an average of -7.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 163%. Over the whole period it spent 79% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Alt Valley Community Trust Limited sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Friends of the British Library (£1.6m), The Svetlanov Legacy Charity (£1.6m) and American Museum & Gardens (£1.6m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 99%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £509k would cover about 3 months of spending at that rate. It employed 32 people.