Trades Union Congress Educational Trust

Analysis

Trades Union Congress Educational Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in January 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Trades Union Congress Educational Trust reported income of £37k and spending of £309k, spending 841% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £388k to £37k (-91%), an average of -44% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 96%. Over the whole period it spent 180% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Trades Union Congress Educational Trust sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include United Kingdom Society for Extracellular Vesicles (£37k), Wycliffe College Foundation (£37k) and The Alpha Omega Charitable Trust (£37k).

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.