The Lingwood Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Lingwood Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Chelmsford. It was registered in April 1981, 45 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, overseas aid/famine relief and religious activities, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2026, The Lingwood Charitable Trust reported income of £27k and spending of £33k, spending 118% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2026, income fell from £74k to £27k (-63%), an average of -22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income dropped by 65%. Over the whole period it spent 113% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, The Lingwood Charitable Trust sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of St Nicholas Children's Centre Nakuru Kenya (£27k), Bromsgrove Rotary Club Charitable Trust (£28k) and Saffron Walden Lions Club Charitable Trust Fund (£27k).