The Minto Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Minto Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cambridge. It was registered in March 1992, 34 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 Minto Charitable Trust reported income of £16k and spending of £19k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £141k to £16k (-89%), an average of -42% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 86%. Over the whole period it spent 34% 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 Minto Charitable Trust sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Redeemed Christian Church of God the Gateway Church (£16k), The Chamifealion Charitable Trust (£16k) and Whittington Village Hall (£16k).