The Bluston Charitable Settlement

Analysis

The Bluston Charitable Settlement is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in September 1968, 58 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 Bluston Charitable Settlement reported income of £900k and spending of £800k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £235k to £900k (+283%), an average of +40% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 125%. Over the whole period it spent 82% 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 Bluston Charitable Settlement sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Marcus Margulies Charitable Trust (£893k), The Privy Purse Charitable Trust (£903k) and National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (£890k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 100%. Charitable activities took 95% of spending and raising funds 0.2%. Grants to other organisations totalled £757k. Reserves of £30.7m would cover about 438 months of spending at that rate.