The Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Trust Fund

Analysis

The Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Trust Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ipswich. It was registered in January 1978, 48 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Trust Fund reported income of £49k and spending of £96k, spending 196% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £58k to £49k (-16%), an average of -4.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 93%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Trust Fund sits at the 48th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Stourbridge National Spiritualist Church (£49k), The Edgware Sephardi Community Trust (£49k) and Bognor Regis and District Scout Council (£49k).