The Canonbury Tower Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Canonbury Tower Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in December 1985, 41 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 provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Canonbury Tower Charitable Trust reported income of £32k and spending of £72k, spending 221% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £45k to £32k (-28%), an average of -7.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 241% 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 Canonbury Tower Charitable Trust sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Benita and Gerald Fogel Charitable Trust (£32k), Peggy Wilson Charitable Will Trust (£32k) and Bhagat Sain Ji (£32k).

Data notes from the register: The latest annual return was received after its deadline. Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.