The Lancaster-Taylor Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Lancaster-Taylor Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in September 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Lancaster-Taylor Charitable Trust reported income of £82k and spending of £83k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £165 to £82k (+49365%), an average of +372% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 22261%. Over the whole period it spent 359% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, The Lancaster-Taylor Charitable Trust sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include King's Educational Foundation (£82k), Cylch Meithrin Penllwyn (£82k) and Srinivasa Retreat Ltd (£82k).

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.