The Phillida Nicholson Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Phillida Nicholson Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Gloucestershire. It was registered in May 2023, 3 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, overseas aid/famine relief, religious activities and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Phillida Nicholson Charitable Trust reported income of £142k and spending of £37k, leaving 74% of income unspent that year. Across the 2 years on record, from April 2024 to April 2025, income fell from £198k to £142k (-28%), an average of -28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 25% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, The Phillida Nicholson Charitable Trust sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Saint John the Baptist Great Meols (£142k), Destiny Life Church Ltd (£143k) and Madina Mosque and Islamic Centre (£141k).