Gainsborough Trust

Analysis

Gainsborough Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in 9646522. It was registered in February 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Gainsborough Trust reported income of £108k and spending of £103k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £112k to £108k (-3.1%), an average of -0.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Gainsborough Trust sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Inet Trust Limited (£108k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Andrew, Maghull, Liverpool (£108k) and Ringwood Foodbank (£108k).