Chichester Cathedral Millennium Endowment Trust

Analysis

Chichester Cathedral Millennium Endowment Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Chichester. It was registered in April 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 makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Chichester Cathedral Millennium Endowment Trust reported income of £295k and spending of £52k, leaving 82% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £243k to £295k (+21%), an average of +5.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 185% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Chichester Cathedral Millennium Endowment Trust sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Sainsbury Archive (£294k), The Denbighshire and Flintshire Agricultural Society Limited (£297k) and Ryecroft NRC (£291k).