Chelmsford Garden Community Trust

Analysis

Chelmsford Garden Community Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Chelmsford. It was registered in September 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Chelmsford Garden Community Trust reported income of £175k and spending of £152k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £87k to £175k (+101%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Chelmsford Garden Community Trust sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include 1st the Queen's Dragoon Guards Regimental Trust (£175k), Ghana Nurses Association (UK) (£175k) and A J Bell Trust (£175k).