The Aird Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Aird Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in UK. It was registered in March 1987, 39 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Aird Charitable Trust reported income of £88k and spending of £108k, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £109k to £88k (-19%), an average of -5.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 109% 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 Aird Charitable Trust 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 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mandela8 (£88k), Timothy Wells Charitable Trust (£88k) and The Nathan Foundation (£88k).