Brenchley School and Cottages Trust

Analysis

Brenchley School and Cottages Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Tonbridge. It was registered in December 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Brenchley School and Cottages Trust reported income of £25k and spending of £21k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £22k to £25k (+12%), an average of +2.8% a year. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Brenchley School and Cottages Trust sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Sunderland Orphanage and Educational Foundation (£25k), Easthorpe Common Lands Foundation (£25k) and Wheel of Hope Charitable Trust UK (£25k).