Plum Layton Charitable Trust

Analysis

Plum Layton Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Chippenham. It was registered in February 2011, 15 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 individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Plum Layton Charitable Trust reported income of £124k and spending of £129k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from January 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £44k to £124k (+183%), an average of +30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 238%. Over the whole period it spent 48% 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, Plum Layton Charitable Trust sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Lidbury Family Trust (£123k), H M Sassoon Charitable Trust (£124k) and Laufer Charitable Trust (£123k).