The Gledswood Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Gledswood Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in May 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Gledswood Charitable Trust reported income of £89k and spending of £135k, spending 152% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £72k to £89k (+25%), an average of +5.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 115% 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 Gledswood Charitable Trust sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Rockley Charitable Trust (£89k), The Yves Guihannec Foundation (£89k) and LC Taussig Charitable Trust (£89k).