The Worshipful Company of World Traders Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Worshipful Company of World Traders Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hampshire. It was registered in January 1987, 39 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under community and economic development. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending September 2025, The Worshipful Company of World Traders Charitable Trust reported income of £80k and spending of £87k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income fell from £94k to £80k (-14%), an average of -3.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 117% of the income it received.

Among 1,869 England and Wales charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, The Worshipful Company of World Traders Charitable Trust sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Human Resource Professionals Charitable Trust (£80k), Oliver Ford Foundation (£81k) and Compassion (£80k).

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.