Newton Bursary Fund

Analysis

Newton Bursary Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in August 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Newton Bursary Fund reported income of £380k and spending of £387k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £170k to £380k (+123%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Newton Bursary Fund 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 88th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rimon Jewish Primary School Charitable Trust (£378k), Saffron Walden Nursery School (£380k) and The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists Charity (£378k).

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.