The Garennie Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Garennie Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in June 2012, 14 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 and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending June 2025, The Garennie Charitable Trust reported income of £56k and spending of £63k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £26k to £56k (+120%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2025, when income rose by 395%. Over the whole period it spent 117% 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, The Garennie Charitable Trust sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sussex Steel (£56k), Cooke Charitable Trust (£57k) and The Alma Green Charity CIO (£56k).