Cardiff Educational Endowment Trust

Analysis

Cardiff Educational Endowment Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It was registered in March 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06500485). It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Cardiff Educational Endowment Trust reported income of £170k and spending of £269k, spending 159% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £14k to £170k (+1101%), an average of +86% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 142778%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Cardiff Educational Endowment Trust sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include King William Playgroup (£169k), Clavering & Arkesden Preschool (£170k) and Collingwood Under Fives Pre-School (£169k).