Gapper Charitable Trust

Analysis

Gapper Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Chatham. It was registered in May 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Gapper Charitable Trust reported income of £70k and spending of £50k, leaving 28% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £63k to £70k (+11%), an average of +2.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Gapper Charitable Trust sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Thomas Moffitt Clark Charitable Trust (£70k), The John Gilpin Trust (£70k) and Lochlands Trust (£70k).