The Gladys Wightwick Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Gladys Wightwick Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in August 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Gladys Wightwick Charitable Trust reported income of £27k and spending of £70k, spending 263% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £20k to £27k (+34%), an average of +7.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 116% 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, The Gladys Wightwick Charitable Trust sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Nexus Community Trust (£27k), The Parish Rooms (£27k) and Charity Fund 1961 Stationers and Newspaper Makers Company (£26k).