Sir Alastair Pilkington Charitable Trust

Analysis

Sir Alastair Pilkington Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Liverpool. It was registered in November 1969, 57 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 June 2026, Sir Alastair Pilkington Charitable Trust reported income of £39k and spending of £27k, leaving 32% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2022 to June 2026, income grew from £34k to £39k (+15%), an average of +3.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2024, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 81% 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, Sir Alastair Pilkington Charitable Trust sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Leanne and Winston Newman Charitable Trust (£39k), Dilys Joyce Coleman Charitable Trust (£39k) and The Hedera Charitable Trust (£39k).