The Girdlers' Company Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Girdlers' Company Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in December 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending September 2025, The Girdlers' Company Charitable Trust reported income of £447k and spending of £1.1m, spending 239% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income grew from £146k to £447k (+207%), an average of +32% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2025, when income rose by 331%. Over the whole period it spent 502% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Girdlers' Company Charitable 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 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pandas Foundation (£447k), Mondochallenge Foundation (£447k) and The Oakdale Trust (£447k).

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.