Hastings and St Leonards Foreshore Charitable Trust

Analysis

Hastings and St Leonards Foreshore Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in East Sussex. It was registered in August 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Hastings and St Leonards Foreshore Charitable Trust reported income of £1.9m and spending of £1.6m, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £1.0m to £1.9m (+87%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 98% 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, Hastings and St Leonards Foreshore Charitable Trust sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hackney Joint Estate Charity (£1.8m), Age Concern Solihull (£1.9m) and The Aurum Charitable Trust (£1.8m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 95% and investments 4.8%. Charitable activities took 95% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Grants to other organisations totalled £174k. Reserves of £2.1m would cover about 15 months of spending at that rate.