The Searchlight Electric Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Searchlight Electric Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Manchester. It was registered in June 1989, 37 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, The Searchlight Electric Charitable Trust reported income of £76k and spending of £34k, leaving 56% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £129k to £76k (-41%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income rose by 89%. Over the whole period it spent 108% 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 Searchlight Electric Charitable Trust sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Dickinson Charitable Trust (£76k), South Yorkshire Transport Trust (£76k) and The Anthony Gold Solicitors Charitable Trust (£76k).