Seedlings Foundation

Analysis

Seedlings Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leeds. It was registered in December 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Seedlings Foundation reported income of £32k and spending of £35k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £7,155 to £32k (+343%), an average of +45% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 423%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Seedlings Foundation sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% 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 Clifton Green Primary School Fund (£32k), 4th Harrow (County School) Boy Scout Group (£32k) and John F Kennedy School Association (£32k).