The Charles and Edna Broadhurst Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Charles and Edna Broadhurst Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Merseyside. It was registered in February 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and religious activities, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Charles and Edna Broadhurst Charitable Trust reported income of £24k and spending of £34k, spending 140% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £16k to £24k (+50%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 144% 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 Charles and Edna Broadhurst Charitable Trust sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Holme Lacy Parochial Charities (£24k), Salem Health Project (£24k) and Vianinos UK (£24k).

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.