St Mary's Steeple Ashton Preservation Trust

Analysis

St Mary's Steeple Ashton Preservation Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wiltshire. It was registered in September 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under environment and conservation. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, St Mary's Steeple Ashton Preservation Trust reported income of £13k and spending of £31k, spending 239% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £5,488 to £13k (+133%), an average of +24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 371%. Over the whole period it spent 52% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, St Mary's Steeple Ashton Preservation Trust sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Matthew of Bristol Trust (£13k), Hertfordshire Natural History Society (£13k) and Halstead in Bloom (£13k).