The Mustardseed Arts and Educational Trust

Analysis

The Mustardseed Arts and Educational Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Stanmore. It was registered in August 1987, 39 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Mustardseed Arts and Educational Trust reported income of £303k and spending of £341k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £450k to £303k (-33%), an average of -9.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income dropped by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Mustardseed Arts and Educational Trust sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rochdale Foodbank (£303k), Women's Royal Naval Service Benevolent Trust (£303k) and The Community of St Anselm (£303k).