The Eton Fives Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Eton Fives Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hertfordshire. It was registered in July 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. It says it makes grants to organisations and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Eton Fives Charitable Trust reported income of £11k and spending of £24k, spending 217% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £7,222 to £11k (+56%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 394% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, The Eton Fives Charitable Trust sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 33rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Stanley Common Recreation Ground (£11k), Atkinson and Clarke Educational Foundation (£11k) and 1st West Kirby Scout Group (£11k).

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.