The Earley Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Earley Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Reading. It was registered in August 1981, 45 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the prevention or relief of poverty, overseas aid/famine relief and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Earley Charitable Trust reported income of £122k and spending of £108k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £96k to £122k (+28%), an average of +6.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Earley Charitable Trust sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Being Woman (£122k), Hands of Giving Foundation (£123k) and Shoreline Church (£122k).