Experience Oxfordshire Charitable Trust

Analysis

Experience Oxfordshire Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxfordshire. It was registered in December 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts/culture/heritage/science and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04588061). It says it provides services, provides advocacy/advice/information and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Experience Oxfordshire Charitable Trust reported income of £40k and spending of £52k, spending 129% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £127k to £40k (-68%), an average of -25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 2518%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Experience Oxfordshire Charitable Trust sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lakeland Arts Support Trust (£40k), The Jonas Foundation UK (£40k) and Dende Collective (£40k).

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.