Miss Edith Mary Sage Charitable Trust

Analysis

Miss Edith Mary Sage Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in August 1999, 27 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 May 2026, Miss Edith Mary Sage Charitable Trust reported income of £34k and spending of £49k, spending 146% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2022 to May 2026, income grew from £17k to £34k (+103%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2025, when income rose by 77%. Over the whole period it spent 132% 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, Miss Edith Mary Sage Charitable Trust sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Newark Patriotic Fund (£34k), Age Concern Todmorden Ltd (£34k) and The Town Estate (Otherwise the Town Land and Whitebread Allotment) Known Locally As the Whitebread Charity (£34k).

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.