Mountain Training Trust

Analysis

Mountain Training Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Betws-Y-Coed. It was registered in August 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03250981). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Mountain Training Trust reported income of £4.3m and spending of £4.6m, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £2.6m to £4.3m (+64%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Mountain Training Trust sits at the 99th percentile: it is one of the largest 1% in its cause. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include University of the Arts London Students' Union (£4.1m), Wicksteed Charitable Trust (£4.4m) and BNJC (£4.1m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 37%, charitable activities 32% and trading 16%. Charitable activities took 53% of spending and raising funds 47%. It employed 80 people.

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.