The Exbury Gardens Trust

Analysis

The Exbury Gardens Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hampshire. It was registered in June 1988, 38 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 makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending October 2025, The Exbury Gardens Trust reported income of £128k and spending of £382k, spending 299% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income fell from £183k to £128k (-30%), an average of -8.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2024, when income rose by 247%. Over the whole period it spent 192% 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 Exbury Gardens Trust sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% 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 Emmanuel and Edwina Grodzinski Charitable Trust (£126k), The Mackay and Brewer Charitable Trust (£128k) and The Janus Foundation (£126k).