Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Settlement

Analysis

Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Settlement is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Herts. It was registered in April 1978, 48 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, overseas aid/famine relief, arts/culture/heritage/science and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Settlement reported income of £574k and spending of £1.7m, spending 304% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £371k to £574k (+55%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 420% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Allan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Settlement sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Matliwala Darul Aloom Charitable Trust (£572k), The Hindu Temple Trust (£577k) and Guru Nanak Gurdwara South Birmingham (£569k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 100%. Charitable activities took 88% of spending and raising funds 3.5%. Grants to other organisations totalled £1.5m. Reserves of £25.6m would cover about 160 months of spending at that rate.

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.