Active Service Trust

Analysis

Active Service Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lancashire. It was registered in August 1980, 46 years ago. Its declared purposes cover overseas aid/famine relief, religious activities and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. It says it makes grants to organisations and provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Active Service Trust reported income of £22k and spending of £23k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £16k to £22k (+40%), an average of +8.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 39%. Over the whole period it spent 117% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Active Service Trust 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 46th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ziaia Welfare (£21k), Glad Tidings Fellowship International (United Kingdom) (£22k) and The Akili Trust (£21k).

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.