Nicaragua Education, Culture and Arts Trust

Analysis

Nicaragua Education, Culture and Arts Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Aylesbury. It was registered in June 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Nicaragua Education, Culture and Arts Trust reported income of £17k and spending of £19k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £22k to £17k (-22%), an average of -6.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income dropped by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Nicaragua Education, Culture and Arts Trust sits at the 40th percentile: it is larger than about 40% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Little Cherubs Community (£17k), Hoper-Dixon Trust (£17k) and Kington United Charities (£17k).