The Cobtree Charity Trust Limited

Analysis

The Cobtree Charity Trust Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Maidstone. It was registered in September 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 company (Companies House number 00500208). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Cobtree Charity Trust Limited reported income of £185k and spending of £341k, spending 184% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £171k to £185k (+8.8%), an average of +2.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 155% 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 Cobtree Charity Trust Limited sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Charles Littlewood Hill Trust (£184k), The Kajatawa Foundation (£186k) and Portchester Community Centre Limited (£184k).

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.