Ascension Community Trust

Analysis

Ascension Community Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in May 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, religious activities and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04184090). It says it provides human resources, provides services and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Ascension Community Trust reported income of £470k and spending of £340k, leaving 28% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £198k to £470k (+138%), an average of +24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 109%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Ascension Community Trust sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Shri Sithi Vinayagar Thevasthanam (£470k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Michael New Malton (£471k) and Clapton Park United Reformed Church (£470k).