Smallpeice Trust Limited

Analysis

Smallpeice Trust Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leamington Spa. It was registered in January 1968, 58 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 00882371). It says it makes grants to organisations and provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Smallpeice Trust Limited reported income of £2.9m and spending of £3.9m, spending 133% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £2.5m to £2.9m (+16%), an average of +3.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 118% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Smallpeice Trust Limited sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Northumbrian Educational Trust Ltd (£2.9m), Ecole Francaise de Londres Jacques Prevert Ltd (£3.0m) and The Unicorn School Ltd (£2.9m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 75%, investments 19% and donations and legacies 3.3%. Charitable activities took 80% of spending and raising funds 18%. Grants to other organisations totalled £93k. Reserves of £19.8m would cover about 60 months of spending at that rate. It employed 45 people.

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.