The Margaret and Ian Posgate Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Margaret and Ian Posgate Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Eastbourne. It was registered in March 1979, 47 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Margaret and Ian Posgate Charitable Trust reported income of £11k and spending of £35k, spending 308% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £25k to £11k (-55%), an average of -18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 208% 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, The Margaret and Ian Posgate Charitable Trust sits at the 34th percentile: it is larger than about 34% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 33rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Carlton Community Choir (Halifax) (£11k), Orwell Village Hall (£11k) and North Hampshire Jubilee Choir (£11k).

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.