Oks Educational and Benevolent Trust

Analysis

Oks Educational and Benevolent Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Kent. It was registered in December 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and the prevention or relief of poverty, 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 September 2025, Oks Educational and Benevolent Trust reported income of £26k and spending of £36k, spending 138% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income grew from £18k to £26k (+46%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 117% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Oks Educational and Benevolent Trust sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lamprey Trust (£26k), William Gunn's Charity (£26k) and African Solutions UK (£26k).

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.