Reading Blue Coat and Archbishop Laud Charitable Trust

Analysis

Reading Blue Coat and Archbishop Laud Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Reading. It was registered in January 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Reading Blue Coat and Archbishop Laud Charitable Trust reported income of £199k and spending of £183k, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £208k to £199k (-4.1%), an average of -1.0% a year. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Reading Blue Coat and Archbishop Laud Charitable Trust sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Caterpillar Pre-School of Battle Baptist Church (£199k), Greenways Nursery School (£199k) and The Polish Saturday School in Manchester (£199k).