The Quiet Garden Trust

Analysis

The Quiet Garden Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Somerset. It was registered in June 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Quiet Garden Trust reported income of £23k and spending of £27k, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £28k to £23k (-18%), an average of -4.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 15%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The Quiet Garden 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 47th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Immanuel Pentecostal Ministries (£23k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Anselm Hayes (£23k) and Praise Christian Centre International (£23k).

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.