Edmonds and Coles Scholarships

Analysis

Edmonds and Coles Scholarships is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in December 1962, 64 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending August 2026, Edmonds and Coles Scholarships reported income of £14k and spending of £16k, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2022 to August 2026, income fell from £16k to £14k (-13%), an average of -3.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income dropped by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Edmonds and Coles Scholarships sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 37th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rowlands Gill Volunteer Library Association (£14k), Friends of Pear Tree Mead (£14k) and Southwick and North Bradley Scout Group (£14k).

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.