London Grid for Learning Trust

Analysis

London Grid for Learning Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in February 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04205579). It says it provides services, sponsors or undertakes research and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, London Grid for Learning Trust reported income of £26.5m and spending of £24.4m, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £44.4m to £26.5m (-40%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, London Grid for Learning Trust sits at the 99th percentile: it is one of the largest 1% in its cause. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 100th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Coventry School Foundation (£26.4m), King Edward the Sixth Grammar School, Norwich (£26.7m) and Gonville and Caius College in the University of Cambridge Founded in Honour of the Annunciation of the Blessed Mary the Virgin (£26.4m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 99% and investments 1.1%. Charitable activities took 100% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £5.3m would cover about 3 months of spending at that rate. It employed 43 people.