Bernard Richard Body Charitable Trust

Analysis

Bernard Richard Body Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Reading. It was registered in November 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and animals, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Bernard Richard Body Charitable Trust reported income of £15k and spending of £38k, spending 256% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £34k to £15k (-57%), an average of -19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 116% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Bernard Richard Body Charitable Trust sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Y Cyngor ar Alcohol a Chyffuriau Eraill / The Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs (£15k), Miranda Bennion Charitable Trust (£15k) and Safe South West (£15k).