Lochlands Trust

Analysis

Lochlands Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wadhurst. It was registered in November 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Lochlands Trust reported income of £70k and spending of £104k, spending 149% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £54k to £70k (+29%), an average of +6.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 155% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Lochlands Trust sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include William Howarth Charitable Trust (£70k), The Thomas Moffitt Clark Charitable Trust (£70k) and The Colonel Commandants Fund, Royal Tank Regiment (£70k).

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.