The Ashla Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Ashla Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in March 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending October 2025, The Ashla Charitable Trust reported income of £103k and spending of £98k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income grew from £59k to £103k (+74%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2022, when income rose by 72%. Over the whole period it spent 131% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Ashla Charitable Trust sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St Erme Playing Field Trust (£103k), Siri Guru Teg Bahadar Sahib (£103k) and Newhaven Baptist Church-General Fund (£103k).