The Brightside Trust

Analysis

The Brightside Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. 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 provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Brightside Trust reported income of £753k and spending of £999k, spending 133% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £1.0m to £753k (-26%), an average of -7.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 168% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, The Brightside Trust sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Coopers' Company and Coborn Educational Foundation (£753k), AFRUCA - Safeguarding Children (£754k) and Doorstep Library Network (£749k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 79%, donations and legacies 20% and investments 1.2%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £840k would cover about 10 months of spending at that rate. It employed 16 people.

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.