The Apethorpe Educational Trust

Analysis

The Apethorpe Educational Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Northampton. It was registered in October 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and the prevention or relief of poverty, 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 February 2025, The Apethorpe Educational Trust reported income of £40k and spending of £58k, spending 144% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from February 2021 to February 2025, income grew from £29k to £40k (+39%), an average of +8.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to February 2023, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 133% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Apethorpe Educational Trust sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Free Family Representation & Advocacy Project (£40k), Southwark Every Woman's Centre (£40k) and Eleemosynary Charity of Giles Heron (£40k).

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.