Alpha Grove Community Trust

Analysis

Alpha Grove Community Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in January 1976, 50 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Alpha Grove Community Trust reported income of £102k and spending of £85k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £62k to £102k (+65%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 223%. Over the whole period it spent 76% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Alpha Grove Community 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 71st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Moose International Welfare Service Fund (£102k), Charity of Alderman James Hickson (£102k) and B@titude Limited (£102k).