THE KING'S TRUST

Registered charity 1079675 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KING'S TRUST, THE PRINCE'S TRUST · also registered in Scotland as SC041198 (OSCR)

The King's Trust's vision is to end youth unemployment. By breaking down barriers and opening doors The King's Trust supports young people to build the confidence and skills they need to find work. The King's Trust is building a future that works for young people.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total net income of £11.0m for the year, driven by a £2.2m operating surplus and £8.8m in investment gains. Free reserves stood at £33.7m, which the trustees note is equivalent to 7.3 months of normalised monthly expenditure, exceeding their stated policy target of six months.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The King's Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Trustpilot: The King's Trust scores 1.4/5 from 47 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Legal Counsel — £48,193.00 to £50,000.00 (National) or £50,000.00 to £55,000.00 (London), dependent on your location, skills, knowledge and experience · Multiple Locations (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 26/08/2026)
• Senior Digital Delivery Manager — £52,990.00 · London (Hybrid) · posted 2 days ago (seen 26/08/2026)
• Procurement Manager — £39,096.00 to £46,915.00, dependent on your location, skills, knowledge and experience · Multiple Locations (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 26/08/2026)
• Marketing Manager — £35,251.00 to £44,064.00, dependent on your location, skills, knowledge and experience · London (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 26/08/2026)
• Fundraising Planning Manager — £30,000.00 to £41,256.00, dependent on your location, skills, knowledge and experience (National salary £30,000 - £36,612 and London salary -£33,005 - £41,256 ) · Multiple Locations (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 26/08/2026)
• Delivery Partnerships Development Lead — £25,092.00 to £28,783.00, dependent on your location, skills, knowledge and experience · Liverpool (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 26/08/2026)

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 22.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/04/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/10/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Thomas Segun Ilube CBEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Nikesh Kotecha OBE DL
• Elizabeth Sian Evans
• Joan Armatrading MBE
• Lynne Weedall
• Mark Dearnley
• Pavita Cooper · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Oldfield · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon Dingemans
• Suzy Anne Efua Gloria Neubert
• Verity Harding

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with The King's Trust International.

• The King's Trust International income £7.6m
• THE KING'S TRUST GROUP COMPANY income £22.0m
• YOUTH WITH A MISSION THE KING'S LODGE income £491k
• The Queen Elizabeth II Commonwealth Trust income £243k
• KING'S REACH income £1.4m
• KINGDOM FAITH YORKSHIRE TRUST income £216k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.