THE BROOK TRUST

Registered charity 1123562 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

A grant-giving charity supporting charitable causes within and beyond the UK. See www.brooktrust.org for details of current funding criteria.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted funds of £2,394,377, which represents a decrease from the previous year's £2,662,912 due to net expenditure exceeding income. The trustees report that administrative costs are kept to a minimum and that funding is currently provided by specific individuals, with no stated reserves policy target required to meet future costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gibson Booth. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~26.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (91% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• TIM BULLchair
• Dr Elinor Clare Cleghorn
• ROSALIND RILEY · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BROOKSIDE TRUST.

• THE BROOKSIDE TRUST income £28.8m
• EASTBROOK EDUCATION TRUST income £2.0m
• BROOME FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £900k
• THE RORY AND ELIZABETH BROOKS FOUNDATION income £1.0m
• BROOK EARLY YEARS income £376k
• THE CONSUELO AND ANTHONY BROOKE CHARITABLE TRUST income £139k

Side by side with its peers

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