The Simone Prendergast Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Simone Prendergast Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in July 1965, 61 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 Simone Prendergast Charitable Trust reported income of £33k and spending of £38k, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £29k to £33k (+13%), an average of +3.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 98% 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 Simone Prendergast Charitable Trust sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Trust for Sir Neil and Ladies Sheila and Elizabeth Thorne Limited (£33k), The Gillian Stevenson Charitable Trust CIO (£33k) and Good Neighbours in North Cardiff (£33k).