Simplify Charitable Trust

Analysis

Simplify Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leicester. It was registered in May 2014, 12 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 March 2025, Simplify Charitable Trust reported income of £17k and spending of £21k, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £17k to £17k (+3.2%), an average of +0.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 73%. Over the whole period it spent 69% 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, Simplify Charitable Trust sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Bloxham Charitable Trust (£17k), The Vernon N Ely Charitable Trust (£17k) and The Memorial Hall (1914-18) (1939-45) Great Ryburgh (£17k).