The Hugh Pilkington Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Hugh Pilkington Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxford. It was registered in November 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Hugh Pilkington Charitable Trust reported income of £252k and spending of £343k, spending 136% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £241k to £252k (+4.5%), an average of +1.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 67%. Over the whole period it spent 180% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, The Hugh Pilkington Charitable Trust sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Electronic Immigration Network (£252k), Barton-Le-Clay Pre-School (£252k) and Acorn Under Fives (£251k).

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.