The G D Charitable Trust

Analysis

The G D Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in February 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, overseas aid/famine relief, arts/culture/heritage/science and animals, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The G D Charitable Trust reported income of £114k and spending of £160k, spending 140% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £72k to £114k (+59%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 132% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The G D Charitable Trust sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dignity (Worldwide) (£114k), The Ark Church (Huddersfield) (£115k) and Life Church, Brackley (£114k).

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.