The Edna Linnell Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Edna Linnell Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Maidstone. It was registered in June 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training and religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it makes grants to organisations and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending February 2025, The Edna Linnell Charitable Trust reported income of £57k and spending of £99k, spending 176% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from February 2021 to February 2025, income grew from £28k to £57k (+102%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to February 2025, when income rose by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 188% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The Edna Linnell Charitable Trust sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Nelson, Little Marsden (£57k), St Patrick's Church Barking (£57k) and London Slavic Pentecostal Church (£57k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.