Exeter City Community Trust

Analysis

Exeter City Community Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Exeter. It was registered in November 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability, accommodation/housing and amateur sport, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06053326). It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space, provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending January 2025, Exeter City Community Trust reported income of £2.5m and spending of £2.2m, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from January 2021 to January 2025, income grew from £1.1m to £2.5m (+125%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to January 2022, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Exeter City Community Trust sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include DFN Project Search (£2.5m), Scotts Project Trust (£2.5m) and CVS Lincolnshire (£2.5m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 58%, donations and legacies 37%, investments 3.1% and trading 2.1%. Charitable activities took 100% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £1.9m would cover about 10 months of spending at that rate. It employed 99 people.