The Park Lane Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Park Lane Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Salford. It was registered in May 1991, 35 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, The Park Lane Charitable Trust reported income of £344k and spending of £420k, spending 122% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £334k to £344k (+3.3%), an average of +0.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 406%. Over the whole period it spent 64% 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 Park Lane Charitable Trust sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Nidderdale Plus Partnership (£343k), Ecological Restoration Fund (£345k) and The Sapphire Foundation (£342k).