The Fagus Anstruther Memorial Trust

Analysis

The Fagus Anstruther Memorial Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Petworth. It was registered in March 1978, 48 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 individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Fagus Anstruther Memorial Trust reported income of £14k and spending of £34k, spending 239% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from November 2020 to March 2025, income grew from £7,893 to £14k (+80%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 100%. Over the whole period it spent 262% 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, The Fagus Anstruther Memorial Trust sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Pamela Champion Foundation (£14k), The Emerald Charitable Trust (£14k) and Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Association-Club of Great Britain (£14k).

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.