Built Environment Schools Trust

Analysis

Built Environment Schools Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Surrey. It was registered in June 1987, 39 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 02117198). It says it makes grants to individuals and provides services.

In the financial year ending July 2025, Built Environment Schools Trust reported income of £22k and spending of £142k, spending 658% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income fell from £69k to £22k (-69%), an average of -25% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2025, when income rose by 547%. Over the whole period it spent 547% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Built Environment Schools Trust sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 46th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Kinmel Bay Community Library (£22k), St Michael's Aldbourne PTA (£22k) and Rehmat Educational Foundation (£22k).

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.