S Sterling Charitable Trust

Analysis

S Sterling Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. 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 2026, S Sterling Charitable Trust reported income of £216k and spending of £174k, spending 81% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2026, income grew from £25k to £216k (+752%), an average of +71% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2026, when income rose by 302%. Over the whole period it spent 120% 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, S Sterling Charitable Trust sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Hutton Foundation (£216k), The Pantheon Charitable Trust (£216k) and Yeovil Day Centre and Community Meals Service (£215k).