The Yorkshire Cadet Trust

Analysis

The Yorkshire Cadet Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in York. It was registered in May 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, amateur sport and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Yorkshire Cadet Trust reported income of £19k and spending of £23k, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £15k to £19k (+26%), an average of +6.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 69%. Over the whole period it spent 114% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Yorkshire Cadet Trust sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Cooke's Almshouse Charity (£19k), Monmouth and District Foodbank (£19k) and First Genesis Trust (£19k).