The Sulney Fields Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Sulney Fields Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Guildford. It was registered in August 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Sulney Fields Charitable Trust reported income of £31k and spending of £278k, spending 897% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £25k to £31k (+26%), an average of +5.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 809%. Over the whole period it spent 233% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, The Sulney Fields Charitable 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 53rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Owlerton Wesleyan Reform Church (£31k), Emmanuel Church (Aylsham) (£31k) and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (Manchester) Limited (£31k).

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.