John Speak Foundation Foreign Languages Scholarships Trust Fund

Analysis

John Speak Foundation Foreign Languages Scholarships Trust Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bradford. It was registered in March 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending March 2025, John Speak Foundation Foreign Languages Scholarships Trust Fund reported income of £46k and spending of £24k, leaving 47% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £13k to £46k (+257%), an average of +38% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 172%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, John Speak Foundation Foreign Languages Scholarships Trust Fund sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 59th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Scarr-Hall Memorial Trust (£46k), Cylch Meithrin a GRWP Ti a Fi Waunfawr (£46k) and The British Scholarship Trust (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia) (£46k).