Gerald Leigh Charitable Trust

Analysis

Gerald Leigh Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in May 1974, 52 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 April 2025, Gerald Leigh Charitable Trust reported income of £37k and spending of £727k, spending 1951% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £84k to £37k (-55%), an average of -18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 1120% 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, Gerald Leigh Charitable Trust sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Peter Courtauld Charitable Trust (£37k), The R & a Riverdell Trust (£37k) and Henllys Village Hall (£37k).

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.