Gatwick Airport Community Trust

Analysis

Gatwick Airport Community Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in West Sussex. It was registered in December 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, disability and religious activities, which this site groups under disability. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Gatwick Airport Community Trust reported income of £250k and spending of £222k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £236k to £250k (+5.9%), an average of +1.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 300%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Gatwick Airport Community Trust sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Flamingo Chicks CIO (£250k), Normandy Community Therapy Garden (£250k) and Cornwall's Regimental Museum (£250k).