Hitchin Boys' School Charitable Trust

Analysis

Hitchin Boys' School Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hitchin. It was registered in April 1989, 37 years ago. Its declared purposes cover amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Hitchin Boys' School Charitable Trust reported income of £91k and spending of £35k, leaving 62% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £42k to £91k (+115%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 83%. Over the whole period it spent 117% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Hitchin Boys' School Charitable Trust sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Greenwich, Deptford and Rotherhithe Unit of the Sea Cadet Corps (£91k), Bridgend Sports Rugby Football Club CIO (£91k) and 47th Doncaster (Edenthorpe) Scout Group (£91k).