Lingate Charitable Trust

Analysis

Lingate Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in August 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Lingate Charitable Trust reported income of £122k and spending of £160k, spending 131% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £246k to £122k (-51%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 126% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Lingate Charitable Trust sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% 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 Chiltern Evangelical Church (£122k), Dominion Christ Church (£122k) and Toxteth Women's Centre (£122k).