Frays Charitable Trust

Analysis

Frays Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in January 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Frays Charitable Trust reported income of £15k and spending of £19k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £8,433 to £15k (+84%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 147% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Frays Charitable Trust sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% 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 The R E D Trust (£15k), Grane Engineering Museum (£15k) and The Edward Thomas Fellowship (£15k).

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.