The Krikorian Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Krikorian Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Woking. It was registered in August 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Krikorian Charitable Trust reported income of £65k and spending of £78k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £13k to £65k (+419%), an average of +51% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 200%. Over the whole period it spent 115% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Krikorian 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 65th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Plan Zheroes-The Zero Food Waste Heroes (£65k), Mount Zion Pentecostal Church (£65k) and Pay & Employment Rights Service (Yorkshire) Limited (£65k).