The Connaught Trust

Analysis

The Connaught Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Portsmouth. It was registered in August 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover armed forces/emergency service efficiency and other charitable purposes, which this site groups under armed forces, emergency and public safety. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Connaught Trust reported income of £218k and spending of £503k, spending 230% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £232k to £218k (-6.1%), an average of -1.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 123% of the income it received.

Among 200 England and Wales charities whose main cause is armed forces, emergency and public safety and that reported income, The Connaught Trust sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Noah's Ark Pre School (Swanton Morley) (£217k), The Officers' Mess, Joint Service Command and Staff College (JSCSC), Shrivenham (£224k) and Berlin Infantry Brigade Memorial Trust Fund (£206k).

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.