Access Community Trust

Analysis

Access Community Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Suffolk. It was registered in April 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, accommodation/housing and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 07140266). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Access Community Trust reported income of £5.9m and spending of £6.1m, spending 105% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2020 to March 2025, income grew from £4.3m to £5.9m (+38%), an average of +8.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Access Community Trust sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bait Limud Vchesed (£5.8m), The Hereford Diocesan Board of Finance (£6.0m) and Landaid Charitable Trust Limited (£5.8m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 99%. Charitable activities took 94% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £218k would cover about 0 months of spending at that rate. It employed 163 people.