The Stow Allen Trust

Analysis

The Stow Allen Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Letchworth Garden City. It was registered in July 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Stow Allen Trust reported income of £34k and spending of £66k, spending 196% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £19k to £34k (+73%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 186% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The Stow Allen Trust sits at the 42nd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 54th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lamps Collective (£34k), Gedney Dyke Village Hall (£34k) and Anderby Village Hall (£34k).

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.