The Leach Fourteenth Trust

Analysis

The Leach Fourteenth Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in York. It was registered in April 1962, 64 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Leach Fourteenth Trust reported income of £119k and spending of £143k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £74k to £119k (+62%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 126% 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 Leach Fourteenth Trust sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Rowse Family Trust (£118k), Age UK London (£119k) and Wheeler Mill Foundation (£118k).

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.