THE WORDSWORTH TRUST

Registered charity 1066184 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income
£2.2m
Latest spending
£1.9m
Registered
1997

We have not yet analysed this charity’s accounts. Register data shown below.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income
£2.0m
Total spending
£1.9m
Cost of raising funds
£294k
Reserves (reported)
£667k
Employees
29

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Trustees

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£2.2m£1.9m
31/03/2024£1.5m£1.9m
31/03/2023£1.4m£1.9m
31/03/2022£2.9m£2.1m
31/03/2021£2.9m£1.4m

Common questions

Who funds THE WORDSWORTH TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE WORDSWORTH TRUST as a grant recipient include THE JOHN R. MURRAY CHARITABLE TRUST, THE MICHAEL MARKS CHARITABLE TRUST, THE ROTHERMERE FOUNDATION, Friends of the Nations' Libraries.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund02/11/2023£89k"'Serve the Future Hour': the Wordsworth Trust's resilience plan"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund19/01/2016£5.1m"'Reimagining Wordsworth': the Wordsworth Trust masterplan"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund14/09/2004£566k"Acquisition of Collection of books"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund28/05/2003£1.6m"Wordsworth Trust Development Fund"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund31/03/2003£30k"Acquisition of the Greta Hall Collection"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund19/09/2001£675k"Wordsworth Trust Collections Centre"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund26/05/2000£90k"Ecclesiastical Sketches, Wordsworth manuscript"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund13/11/1996£20k"Centre for British Romanticism"