The Peter Townsend Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Peter Townsend Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in April 2012, 14 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 acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2024, The Peter Townsend Charitable Trust reported income of £24k and spending of £36k, spending 147% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2024, income grew from £24k to £24k (+1.5%), an average of +0.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 65%. Over the whole period it spent 61% 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, The Peter Townsend Charitable Trust sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Firthfields Community Association (£24k), Clare Liaison and Support Project (£24k) and The England Charitable Trust (£24k).