Marmot Charitable Trust

Analysis

Marmot Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in November 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under environment and conservation. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Marmot Charitable Trust reported income of £63k and spending of £497k, spending 793% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £42k to £63k (+49%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 702%. Over the whole period it spent 157% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Marmot Charitable Trust sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Society for Army Historical Research (£62k), 89th Reading (Milestone Wood) Scout Group (£63k) and Swans Trust (Shaftesbury) (£62k).