C E K Stern Charitable Trust

Analysis

C E K Stern Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Tyne And Wear. It was registered in September 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the prevention or relief of poverty and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending August 2025, C E K Stern Charitable Trust reported income of £220k and spending of £318k, spending 144% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £176k to £220k (+25%), an average of +5.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2025, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 115% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, C E K Stern Charitable Trust sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Starfish Malawi (£220k), Oasis Church Southampton (£220k) and Step (UK) Ltd (£220k).

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.