Spetchley Gardens Charitable Trust

Analysis

Spetchley Gardens Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Berkeley. It was registered in March 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under environment and conservation. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Spetchley Gardens Charitable Trust reported income of £473k and spending of £509k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £249k to £473k (+90%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 223%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Spetchley Gardens Charitable Trust sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Heritage Trust Network (£473k), Langland Conservation Ltd (£473k) and Cumbria Waste Management Environment Trust (£470k).