The Emerald Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Emerald Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Liverpool. It was registered in June 1997, 29 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 June 2025, The Emerald Charitable Trust reported income of £14k and spending of £13k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income fell from £266k to £14k (-95%), an average of -52% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income dropped by 95%. Over the whole period it spent 14% 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 Emerald Charitable Trust sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Fagus Anstruther Memorial Trust (£14k), The Somerset Masonic Charity (£14k) and The Pamela Champion Foundation (£14k).