Sylvanus Charitable Trust

Analysis

Sylvanus Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in September 1969, 57 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, animals and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Sylvanus Charitable Trust reported income of £114k and spending of £157k, spending 138% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £91k to £114k (+24%), an average of +5.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 154% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Sylvanus 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 73rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of All Saints, Wick, Diocese of Chichester. (£114k), St Lukes Methodist Church Hoylake (£114k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Luke, Ramsgate. (£114k).

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.