The Tunbridge Wells Post Graduate Centre Trust

Analysis

The Tunbridge Wells Post Graduate Centre Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Pembury. It was registered in March 1970, 56 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Tunbridge Wells Post Graduate Centre Trust reported income of £22k and spending of £42k, spending 192% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £16k to £22k (+35%), an average of +7.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 241%. Over the whole period it spent 126% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Tunbridge Wells Post Graduate Centre Trust sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 39% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Charlie Burns Foundation (£22k), Tibetan Sakya Trust (£22k) and Rotary Club of Liskeard and Looe Benevolent Fund (£22k).

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.