The Bright Future Trust

Analysis

The Bright Future Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leatherhead. It was registered in April 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Bright Future Trust reported income of £173k and spending of £101k, leaving 42% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £253k to £173k (-32%), an average of -9.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income dropped by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 71% 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, The Bright Future Trust sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% 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 Oxford Round Table Charitable Trust (£173k), Sanskruti Foundation (UK) (£173k) and The JG Charitable Trust (£173k).