KUSUMA TRUST UK

Registered charity 1126983 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Kusuma Trust UK is a family-led trust making philanthropic investments in the community around us. We give grants to causes, organisations and people that are making a positive difference to society. We choose partners based on our shared values and mutual interests of creating access to opportunities, improving health and well-being, and investing in our communities and environment.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£2.7m
Latest spending
£7.2m
Registered
2008
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £578,817,166, driven by a significant net gain on investments of £48,068,203. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £728,344, which the Trustees plan to spend as programmes develop, while the primary funding source remains the investment income from expendable endowment funds. The Trustees report no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: Over £60,000 — below the median for charities its size (£70k)
“The number of employees who received employee benefits over £60,000 was one (2024: two).” — page 28
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Employees paid over £60,000: 1
“The number of employees who received employee benefits over £60,000 was one (2024: two).” — page 28
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Grants awarded to Kusuma Trust Gibraltar, a related party with common Trustees.
“Kusuma Trust Gibraltar is a related party in the year as it has Trustees in common with Kusuma Trust UK who are able to exercise significant influence over Kusuma Trust Gibraltar. During the year, grants of £855,547 (2024: £620,292) were awarded to Kusuma Trust Gibraltar.” — page 31
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Dixon Wilson Audit Services LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Total income
£2.7m
Total spending
£7.2m
Cost of raising funds
£971k
Reserves (reported)
£728k
Employees
5

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 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: 36.5% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Gibraltar · India · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£2.7m£7.2m
31/12/2024£3.4m£6.9m
31/12/2023£4.9m£7.0m
31/12/2022£4.3m£8.2m
31/12/2021£3.4m£5.2m

Common questions

Is KUSUMA TRUST UK financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total funds increased to £578,817,166, driven by a significant net gain on investments of £48,068,203. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £728,344, which the Trustees plan to spend as programmes develop, while the primary funding source remains the investment income from expendable endowment funds. The Trustees report no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Dixon Wilson Audit Services LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of KUSUMA TRUST UK earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the Over £60,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

Who funds KUSUMA TRUST UK?

Funders whose own accounts filings name KUSUMA TRUST UK as a grant recipient include THE WOODLAND TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE WOODLAND TRUSTFY2024£78kGrants

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 KISUMU CHILDREN TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
KUSUMA TRUST UK£2.7mOver £60,0001unclear—no doubt
THE KISUMU CHILDREN TRUST FY2024£225k—0unclear—no doubt
SRI SATHYA SAI CHARITABLE TRUST UK FY2025£239k—0unclear—no doubt
THE SUTASOMA TRUST FY2025£134k—0unclear—no doubt
THE SCS TRUST FY2024£166k—0within—no doubt
MAN GROUP PLC CHARITABLE TRUST FY2023£334k—0above—no doubt

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