Eric Thompson Charitable Trust for Organists and Organ Music

Analysis

Eric Thompson Charitable Trust for Organists and Organ Music is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in St Albans. It was registered in September 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training 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 individuals.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Eric Thompson Charitable Trust for Organists and Organ Music reported income of £62k and spending of £37k, leaving 40% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £260k to £62k (-76%), an average of -30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 638%. Over the whole period it spent 46% 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, Eric Thompson Charitable Trust for Organists and Organ Music sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Northampton University of the Third Age (£62k), Ealing Book Festival (£62k) and The du Maurier Festival Society (£62k).