The Glove Collection Trust Fund

Analysis

The Glove Collection Trust Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Northampton. It was registered in January 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides services, sponsors or undertakes research and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Glove Collection Trust Fund reported income of £10k and spending of £1,782, leaving 83% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £5,520 to £10k (+86%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 60%. Over the whole period it spent 39% 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, The Glove Collection Trust Fund sits at the 32nd percentile: it is larger than about 32% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Greasby (A) Townswomen's Guild (£10k), The Easingwold Singers (£10k) and Fishguard Invasion Centre Trust Limited (£10k).