Colefax Charitable Trust

Analysis

Colefax Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wiltshire. It was registered in February 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Colefax Charitable Trust reported income of £464k and spending of £330k, leaving 29% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £364k to £464k (+28%), an average of +6.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Colefax Charitable Trust sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Upton Festival of Blues Limited (£464k), The Twentieth Century Society (£465k) and Flavel Centre Trust (£464k).