The Royal Society of St George Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Royal Society of St George Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ferndown. It was registered in November 1971, 55 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 individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Royal Society of St George Charitable Trust reported income of £21k and spending of £25k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £18k to £21k (+20%), an average of +4.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 102%. Over the whole period it spent 103% 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 Royal Society of St George Charitable Trust sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Eric and Dorothy Leach Charitable Trust (£21k), The Sebastian Pearson Charitable Trust (£21k) and The Heagerty Charitable Trust (£21k).