Cygnets Education and Childcare Trust

Analysis

Cygnets Education and Childcare Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Stratford-upon-Avon. It was registered in March 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 August 2025, Cygnets Education and Childcare Trust reported income of £1.1m and spending of £1.0m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £884k to £1.1m (+23%), an average of +5.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2025, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Cygnets Education and Childcare Trust sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 94th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Armiger Foundation (£1.1m), Independent Publishers Guild (£1.1m) and Pata (UK) (£1.1m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 99%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £357k would cover about 4 months of spending at that rate. It employed 33 people.