The Kingsgrove Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Kingsgrove Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxon. It was registered in January 1980, 46 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Kingsgrove Charitable Trust reported income of £40k and spending of £45k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £59k to £40k (-33%), an average of -9.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 122% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Kingsgrove Charitable Trust sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Francis Piggott Walker Charity (£40k), Anjuman-E-Haideria (£40k) and Mi K'amcho (£40k).

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.