The Robert Anderson Research Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Robert Anderson Research Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in January 1989, 37 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 provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Robert Anderson Research Charitable Trust reported income of £87k and spending of £119k, spending 137% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £452k to £87k (-81%), an average of -34% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 145%. Over the whole period it spent 51% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, The Robert Anderson Research Charitable Trust sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Foundation of Ludlow College (£87k), Esklets Preschool (£87k) and Cylch Meithrin Gwenffrwd Treffynnon (£87k).