The Grumitt Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Grumitt Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in East Sussex. It was registered in January 1966, 60 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 and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Grumitt Charitable Trust reported income of £63k and spending of £109k, spending 173% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £2.2m to £63k (-97%), an average of -59% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 91%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, The Grumitt Charitable Trust sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Quekett Microscopical Club (£63k), Rockingham Playgroup (£63k) and Chestnuts Primary School Parents and School Association (£63k).

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.