Huntly and Margery Sinclair Charitable Trust

Analysis

Huntly and Margery Sinclair Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Stroud. It was registered in July 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, Huntly and Margery Sinclair Charitable Trust reported income of £53k and spending of £73k, spending 137% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £20k to £53k (+164%), an average of +28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 77%. Over the whole period it spent 206% 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, Huntly and Margery Sinclair Charitable Trust sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Redruth Community Association (£53k), The Bedford Memorial Trust (£54k) and Ismaili Trust (UK) (£53k).

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.