The Strathspey Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Strathspey Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Nethy Bridge. It was registered in January 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Strathspey Charitable Trust reported income of £35k and spending of £71k, spending 205% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £23k to £35k (+50%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 137% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Strathspey Charitable Trust sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 55th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Whitehaven Bangladeshi Welfare Association (£35k), Carlisle One World Centre (£35k) and United Apostolic Church of Christ, Citadel of Praise (£35k).