Smith Charitable Trust

Analysis

Smith Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in February 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under children and youth development. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Smith Charitable Trust reported income of £230k and spending of £232k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £21k to £230k (+1005%), an average of +82% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 261%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 5,641 England and Wales charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, Smith Charitable 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 83rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Volunteer Action (£230k), City of Westminster Charitable Trust (£230k) and Stanley and Zea Lewis Family Foundation (£228k).

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.