Tinsley Charitable Trust

Analysis

Tinsley Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lincs. It was registered in April 1993, 33 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 March 2025, Tinsley Charitable Trust reported income of £467k and spending of £607k, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £179k to £467k (+161%), an average of +27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 154%. Over the whole period it spent 122% 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, Tinsley Charitable Trust sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% 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 The Mila Charitable Organisation (£465k), Wasps Legends Charitable Foundation (£470k) and The Persimmon Charitable Foundation (£462k).