Greenfields Educational Trust

Analysis

Greenfields Educational Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Forest Row. It was registered in May 1983, 43 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 01720539). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Greenfields Educational Trust reported income of £1.3m and spending of £1.3m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income fell from £1.7m to £1.3m (-23%), an average of -6.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2025, when income dropped by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Greenfields Educational Trust sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sarah Lawrence at Oxford (£1.3m), Sunnylands Limited (£1.3m) and Tower Hamlets Education Partnership (£1.3m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 94%, donations and legacies 3.6% and trading 1.8%. Charitable activities took 100% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. It employed 46 people.

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.