The Adrian Swire Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Adrian Swire Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in November 1988, 38 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 December 2025, The Adrian Swire Charitable Trust reported income of £2.0m and spending of £1.8m, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £1.8m to £2.0m (+12%), an average of +2.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 92% 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, The Adrian Swire Charitable Trust sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Network for Social Change Charitable Trust (£2.0m), Age UK Enfield (£2.0m) and The Jim Marshall Charity (£1.9m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 100%. Charitable activities took 96% of spending and raising funds 1.0%. Grants to other organisations totalled £1.7m.