Sir Ernest Cassel Educational Trust

Analysis

Sir Ernest Cassel Educational Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in York. It was registered in October 1966, 60 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 organisations.

In the financial year ending May 2025, Sir Ernest Cassel Educational Trust reported income of £14k and spending of £107k, spending 768% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2021 to May 2025, income grew from £2,514 to £14k (+454%), an average of +53% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2023, when income rose by 328%. Over the whole period it spent 1133% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Sir Ernest Cassel Educational Trust 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 The Parents Teachers and Friends of Testbourne School (£14k), Goostrey County Primary School Parent Teacher Association (£14k) and Stoberry Park School Circle of Friends (£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.