The Mildred Duveen Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Mildred Duveen Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in November 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Mildred Duveen Charitable Trust reported income of £22k and spending of £29k, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £19k to £22k (+17%), an average of +3.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 167% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Mildred Duveen Charitable Trust sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Oxford City Singers (£22k), The David and Marie Grumitt Foundation (£22k) and Reset MH (£22k).

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.