The City Solicitors Educational Trust

Analysis

The City Solicitors Educational Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in October 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The City Solicitors Educational Trust reported income of £267k and spending of £161k, leaving 40% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £102k to £267k (+160%), an average of +27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2022, when income rose by 280%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, The City Solicitors Educational Trust sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Esprit Foundation (£266k), Brenchley Preschool (£267k) and Helping Uganda Schools (Hugs) (£266k).