The Segelman Trust

Analysis

The Segelman Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in March 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Segelman Trust reported income of £1.1m and spending of £3.2m, spending 304% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £52.2m to £1.1m (-98%), an average of -62% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 99%. Over the whole period it spent 17% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Segelman Trust sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% 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 Birmingham Royal Institution for the Blind (£1.0m), The Aisling Project (£1.1m) and Age UK Bristol (£1.0m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 87%. Charitable activities took 94% of spending and raising funds 5.2%. Grants to other organisations totalled £2.8m. Reserves of £56.8m would cover about 212 months of spending at that rate. It employed 2 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.