Painters Company Charities

Analysis

Painters Company Charities is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in March 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending September 2025, Painters Company Charities reported income of £113k and spending of £58k, leaving 49% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income fell from £296k to £113k (-62%), an average of -21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2024, when income rose by 349%. Over the whole period it spent 39% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Painters Company Charities sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chatham and Rochester Muslim Committee (£113k), Thornton Heath Islamic Centre (£113k) and The SF Charitable Trust (£113k).