Porters Trust

Analysis

Porters Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in October 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Porters Trust reported income of £17k and spending of £192k, spending 1153% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £11k to £17k (+54%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 1073%. Over the whole period it spent 546% 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, Porters Trust sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Woodhall Charitable Trust (£17k), The Nicholas Joels Charitable Trust (£17k) and Kabuki UK (£17k).

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.