Spencer Hart Charitable Trust

Analysis

Spencer Hart Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in September 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the advancement of health or saving of lives and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Spencer Hart Charitable Trust reported income of £30k and spending of £68k, spending 226% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £32k to £30k (-5.8%), an average of -1.5% a year. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Spencer Hart Charitable Trust sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 52nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Gratton Trust (£30k), British Kashmiri Charitable Foundation (BKCF.) (£30k) and The Cricket Asylum Foundation (£30k).