Essex Youth Trust

Analysis

Essex Youth Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Halstead. It was registered in June 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, arts/culture/heritage/science and amateur sport, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Essex Youth Trust reported income of £88k and spending of £395k, spending 449% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £349k to £88k (-75%), an average of -29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income dropped by 67%. Over the whole period it spent 151% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Essex Youth Trust sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Farley Hospital (£88k), Francis Clark Charitable Foundation (£88k) and The Lord Mayor of Bristol's Christmas Appeal for Children (£88k).

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.