Garden Route Children's Trust

Analysis

Garden Route Children's Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Surrey. It was registered in October 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Garden Route Children's Trust reported income of £113k and spending of £94k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £86k to £113k (+32%), an average of +7.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Garden Route Children's Trust sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Road Haulage Association Benevolent Fund (£113k), Revive International (£113k) and St Andrew's United Reformed Church Upper Hanover Street Sheffield Trust (£113k).