The Saintbury Trust

Analysis

The Saintbury Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Surrey. It was registered in February 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Saintbury Trust reported income of £365k and spending of £453k, spending 124% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £291k to £365k (+26%), an average of +5.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 87%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Saintbury Trust sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Blyth Charitable Trust (£365k), The Civil Service Retirement Fellowship (£367k) and Lynemouth Day Centre Ltd (£365k).