The Shoe Zone Trust

Analysis

The Shoe Zone Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leicester. It was registered in February 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Shoe Zone Trust reported income of £352k and spending of £381k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £320k to £352k (+10%), an average of +2.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 110%. Over the whole period it spent 58% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Shoe Zone Trust sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Consortium for Street Children (£352k), Humber NHS Foundation Trust Charitable Funds (£353k) and Community Against Poverty Foundation (£352k).