The Addleshaw Goddard Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Addleshaw Goddard Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leeds. It was registered in April 1983, 43 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, The Addleshaw Goddard Charitable Trust reported income of £84k and spending of £74k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £77k to £84k (+8.8%), an average of +2.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income rose by 13537%. Over the whole period it spent 204% 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, The Addleshaw Goddard Charitable Trust sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Three Bears Foundation (£84k), Hyndburn Voluntary and Community Resource Centre Ltd (£84k) and Rayonhills (£84k).