Ganton Educational Trust

Analysis

Ganton Educational Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sheffield. It was registered in January 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Ganton Educational Trust reported income of £18k and spending of £21k, spending 121% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £10k to £18k (+70%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 157% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Ganton Educational 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 42nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Droitwich Spa & District U3a (£18k), Ingleton County Primary School Fund (£18k) and Kurt Hahn Trust (£18k).

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.