Cordwainers Charitable Trust

Analysis

Cordwainers Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in October 1973, 53 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending July 2025, Cordwainers Charitable Trust reported income of £193k and spending of £163k, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income fell from £281k to £193k (-31%), an average of -9.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2022, when income dropped by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 91% 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, Cordwainers Charitable Trust sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Selwood Charitable Trust (£192k), Home-Start Crawley, Horsham and Mid-Sussex (£193k) and Chinese Community Wellbeing Society (£192k).