The Nancy Kenyon Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Nancy Kenyon Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ilminster. It was registered in March 1973, 53 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 April 2025, The Nancy Kenyon Charitable Trust reported income of £87k and spending of £120k, spending 138% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £67k to £87k (+30%), an average of +6.9% a year. Over the whole period it spent 134% 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 Nancy Kenyon Charitable Trust sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sandown & Shanklin Independent Lifeboat (£87k), Scarborough and Locals Together (£87k) and The Cordatius Trust (£87k).

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.