H M Sassoon Charitable Trust

Analysis

H M Sassoon Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in December 1962, 64 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 2026, H M Sassoon Charitable Trust reported income of £124k and spending of £285k, spending 230% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2026, income grew from £55k to £124k (+124%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 6868%. Over the whole period it spent 22% 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, H M Sassoon Charitable Trust sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Plum Layton Charitable Trust (£124k), The Wyndham Charitable Trust (£124k) and The Lidbury Family Trust (£123k).

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.