Gamlen Charitable Trust

Analysis

Gamlen Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Chichester. It was registered in November 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training 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 organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Gamlen Charitable Trust reported income of £700k and spending of £704k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £42k to £700k (+1571%), an average of +102% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 840%. 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, Gamlen Charitable Trust sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Scott Bader Commonwealth Limited (£698k), The Beacon Equity Trust (£700k) and St Francis Employability (£698k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 9.3%. Charitable activities took 7.1% of spending and raising funds 92%.

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.