The Ettling Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Ettling Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in January 2009, 17 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 organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Ettling Charitable Trust reported income of £18k and spending of £18k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £4,628 to £18k (+280%), an average of +40% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 163%. Over the whole period it spent 121% 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 Ettling Charitable Trust sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Rowland St Oswald 1984 Charitable Settlement (£18k), The Bill Stickland Fund (£18k) and The Charles Frederick Green Charitable Trust (£18k).

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.