The 1989 Willan Charitable Trust

Analysis

The 1989 Willan Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. 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 September 2025, The 1989 Willan Charitable Trust reported income of £444k and spending of £910k, spending 205% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income fell from £470k to £444k (-5.4%), an average of -1.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2024, when income rose by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 198% 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, The 1989 Willan Charitable Trust sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bromley Voluntary Sector Trust (£444k), The George Cadbury Trust (George Henry T and Laurence J Cadbury Sections) (£446k) and The Pemberton-Barnes Trust (£441k).

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.