Livingston Charitable Trust

Analysis

Livingston Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Livingston. It was registered in November 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Livingston Charitable Trust reported income of £489k and spending of £519k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £878k to £489k (-44%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income dropped by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Livingston Charitable Trust sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include York City Church (£489k), Gateway Vineyard Christian Fellowship Norwich (£490k) and Catenian Association Benevolent and Children's Fund (£488k).