Educational and General Charitable Trust

Analysis

Educational and General Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Buckinghamshire. It was registered in October 1961, 65 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, overseas aid/famine relief and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2026, Educational and General Charitable Trust reported income of £124k and spending of £139k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2026, income grew from £102k to £124k (+22%), an average of +5.0% a year. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Educational and General Charitable Trust sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sundon Park Baptist Church (£124k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Widford (£125k) and Nawracy Cultural Centre (£124k).

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.