The London Junior Chess Championship Charitable Trust

Analysis

The London Junior Chess Championship Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in April 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and amateur sport, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides human resources, provides services and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The London Junior Chess Championship Charitable Trust reported income of £31k and spending of £34k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £8,569 to £31k (+267%), an average of +38% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 223%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, The London Junior Chess Championship Charitable Trust sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include 1st Frimley Green and Mytchett Scout Group (£31k), Craven Arms Playing Field (£31k) and 1st/36th Doncaster (St Peter's Warmsworth) Scout Group (£31k).