Love is Kindness Charitable Trust

Analysis

Love is Kindness Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in East Molesey. It was registered in July 2010, 16 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 April 2025, Love is Kindness Charitable Trust reported income of £18k and spending of £27k, spending 148% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £22k to £18k (-15%), an average of -4.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 144%. Over the whole period it spent 98% 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, Love is Kindness 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 43rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Manor 2056 Trust (£18k), H T and L B Cadbury Charitable Trust (£18k) and Ducklington and Hardwick Village Hall (£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.