City Educational Trust Fund

Analysis

City Educational Trust Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in February 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, City Educational Trust Fund reported income of £134k and spending of £3.7m, spending 2756% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £156k to £134k (-14%), an average of -3.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 98%. Over the whole period it spent 631% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, City Educational Trust Fund 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 75th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hurstpierpoint Pre School Playgroup (£134k), British Society of Urogenital Radiology (£134k) and The Aristotelian Society (£134k).

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.