Brigadier Goulburn's 1982 Charitable Trust

Analysis

Brigadier Goulburn's 1982 Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Maidstone. It was registered in March 1982, 44 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Brigadier Goulburn's 1982 Charitable Trust reported income of £11k and spending of £6,981, leaving 37% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £14k to £11k (-19%), an average of -5.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Brigadier Goulburn's 1982 Charitable Trust sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% 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 Faldingworth Village Hall (£11k), The Peter Ward Charitable Trust (£11k) and The Military Knights of Windsor Widows, Orphans and Supernumary Knights Benevolent Fund (£11k).