The Fire Service Research and Training Trust

Analysis

The Fire Service Research and Training Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Stratford upon avon. It was registered in June 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, environment/conservation/heritage and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending September 2025, The Fire Service Research and Training Trust reported income of £223k and spending of £443k, spending 198% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income grew from £165k to £223k (+35%), an average of +7.9% a year. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, The Fire Service Research and Training Trust sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include 90 North Foundation (£223k), Campaign to Protect Rural England, Hampshire Branch (£224k) and Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation (GB) (£222k).