The East Grinstead Common Good Trust

Analysis

The East Grinstead Common Good Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in West Sussex. It was registered in March 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending June 2025, The East Grinstead Common Good Trust reported income of £19k and spending of £52k, spending 273% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £17k to £19k (+13%), an average of +3.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 263% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The East Grinstead Common Good Trust sits at the 37th percentile: it is larger than about 37% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Maidstone Singers (£19k), Brighton Ki Society (£19k) and Community Initiative (Bishops Stortford) (£19k).

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.