Mihran Essefian Charitable Trust (Also Known As the Mihran and Azniv Essefian Charitable Trust)

Analysis

Mihran Essefian Charitable Trust (Also Known As the Mihran and Azniv Essefian Charitable Trust) is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in February 1978, 48 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Mihran Essefian Charitable Trust (Also Known As the Mihran and Azniv Essefian Charitable Trust) reported income of £44k and spending of £75k, spending 172% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £47k to £44k (-8.0%), an average of -2.1% a year. Over the whole period it spent 239% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Mihran Essefian Charitable Trust (Also Known As the Mihran and Azniv Essefian 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 58th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Teignmouth Players Amateur Dramatic Society (£44k), Droylsden Little Theatre (£44k) and Eccleston Windle Bleak Hill County Primary School Friends Association Also Known As Friends of Bleak Hill School (£44k).

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.