THE TUDOR TRUST

Registered charity 1105580 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Tudor Trust is an independent grant-making charitable trust. We fund projects across the UK, aiming to support work which addresses the social, emotional and financial needs of people at the margins of Society. We do not focus on specific themes or programmes.

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Latest income
£8.5m
Latest spending
£12.5m
Registered
2004
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £226,098,000, while net charitable expenditure exceeded income, resulting in a net deficit for the year of £5,037,000. This deficit was funded through investment income and capital withdrawals from the expendable endowment, which was valued at £234,100,000 at year-end. The Trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: monitoring the value of the Fund in real terms to ensure that they are able to achieve both income and capital appreciation so as to maintain the existing level of charitable giving for the foreseeable future (held: £226.1m)
“The Trustees intend to continue monitoring the value of the Fund in real terms to ensure that they are able to achieve both income and capital appreciation so as to maintain the existing level of charitable giving for the foreseeable future.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Total income
£8.5m
Total spending
£12.5m
Cost of raising funds
£832k
Reserves (reported)
£226k
Employees
9

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 9.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Italy · Kenya · Malawi · Throughout England And Wales · Uganda · United States · Zambia · Zimbabwe

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£8.5m£12.5m
31/03/2024£6.0m£18.7m
31/03/2023£5.6m£23.5m
31/03/2022£4.7m£23.2m
31/03/2021£4.9m£24.2m

Common questions

Is THE TUDOR TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £226,098,000, while net charitable expenditure exceeded income, resulting in a net deficit for the year of £5,037,000. This deficit was funded through investment income and capital withdrawals from the expendable endowment, which was valued at £234,100,000 at year-end. The Trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue operations. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.

Who funds THE TUDOR TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE TUDOR TRUST as a grant recipient include THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST CATHERINE'S, WAKEFIELD.

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE JAMES TUDOR FOUNDATION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE TUDOR TRUST£8.5m——unclear—no doubt
THE JAMES TUDOR FOUNDATION FY2025£977k—0unclear—no doubt
THE TUTOR TRUST FY2025£3.4m——within—no doubt
THE DULVERTON TRUST FY2026£2.2m£90,001 - £100,0001unclear—no doubt
James Tuttiett Charitable Trust FY2025£548k—0unclear—no doubt
THE TEN CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£589k—0above—no doubt

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