The Panasonic Trust for the Further Education and Training of Engineers

Analysis

The Panasonic Trust for the Further Education and Training of Engineers is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Somerset. It was registered in November 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under environment and conservation. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Panasonic Trust for the Further Education and Training of Engineers reported income of £106k and spending of £110k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £440k to £106k (-76%), an average of -30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 114%. Over the whole period it spent 74% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, The Panasonic Trust for the Further Education and Training of Engineers sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Little Ouse Headwaters Project (£106k), Eva Crane Trust (£106k) and Hitchin Town Hall Gymnasium and Workman's Hall Trust (£106k).

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.