Wynaud Trust

Analysis

Wynaud Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leighton Buzzard. It was registered in June 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the prevention or relief of poverty, religious activities and economic/community development/employment, 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 April 2025, Wynaud Trust reported income of £46k and spending of £54k, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £38k to £46k (+20%), an average of +4.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 114% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Wynaud Trust sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Friends of the Centre for Torah Education Trust (£46k), Sophia Akash Foundation CIO (£46k) and Manorfield Charitable Foundation (£46k).