The Vernon N Ely Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Vernon N Ely Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Surrey. It was registered in March 1964, 62 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 Vernon N Ely Charitable Trust reported income of £17k and spending of £387k, spending 2225% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £435k to £17k (-96%), an average of -55% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 86%. Over the whole period it spent 330% 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 Vernon N Ely Charitable Trust sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Simplify Charitable Trust (£17k), The Leaver Family Charitable Trust (£17k) and The Bloxham Charitable Trust (£17k).

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.