The Elizabeth Margaret Susan Cotton Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Elizabeth Margaret Susan Cotton Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Liverpool. It was registered in January 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Elizabeth Margaret Susan Cotton Charitable Trust reported income of £15k and spending of £28k, spending 194% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £12k to £15k (+27%), an average of +6.2% a year. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, The Elizabeth Margaret Susan Cotton Charitable Trust sits at the 45th percentile: it is larger than about 45% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Highworth (£15k), The Otago University Trust (£15k) and Friends of Riverside Primary School (Rainham) (£15k).