The Mount Everest Foundation

Analysis

The Mount Everest Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Suffolk. It was registered in September 1962, 64 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 00543894). It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Mount Everest Foundation reported income of £76k and spending of £95k, spending 125% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £63k to £76k (+21%), an average of +4.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 154% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, The Mount Everest Foundation sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ravenshead Preschool Playgroup Charitable Incorporated Organisation (£76k), Esperanza Trust for Anthropological Research (£76k) and Hampstead Parochial School Parent Teacher Association (£76k).

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.