The Clayson Williams Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Clayson Williams Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Herts. It was registered in January 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Clayson Williams Charitable Trust reported income of £12k and spending of £12k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £2,329 to £12k (+416%), an average of +51% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 115%. Over the whole period it spent 252% 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, The Clayson Williams Charitable Trust sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 34th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Aridev Foundation (£12k), The Bampton Welfare Trust (£12k) and The Gravita Foundation (£12k).

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.