Cooke Charitable Trust

Analysis

Cooke Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Launceston. It was registered in March 2001, 25 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 April 2025, Cooke Charitable Trust reported income of £57k and spending of £122k, spending 216% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £25k to £57k (+124%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 188% 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, Cooke Charitable Trust sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Garennie Charitable Trust (£56k), The Ellen Mavis Chalk Charitable Trust (£57k) and Sussex Steel (£56k).

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.