BRITISH GAS ENERGY TRUST

Registered charity 1179578 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BGET

The Trust contributes to the relief of poverty, with a particular focus on fuel poverty. It helps families and individuals experiencing hardship who are struggling with gas and electricity debts by awarding grants to clear those debts. The Trust also funds organisations across England, Wales and Scotland to provide fuel debt and money advice services within communities.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total reserves of £10,860,455 at the end of the financial year, comprising unrestricted, restricted, and designated funds. The trustees confirmed they have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Arvinda Gohil — Chair (source)
• Tracey Talbot — Interim Chief Executive Officer (source)

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• British Gas — “British Gas Energy Trust is an independent Charitable Trust solely funded by British Gas since 2004.” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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 (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/05/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Arvinda Gohil OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gary Booker
• Ian McKetty
• JAMES BANKS
• Mark Howard McGillicuddy · trustee of 1 other charity
• Matthew Stewart Dronfield · trustee of 1 other charity
• Miranda Corti
• RUTH KENNEDY
• William Gillis · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 BAYWIND ENERGY COMMUNITY TRUST.

• THE BAYWIND ENERGY COMMUNITY TRUST income £177k
• PEC TRUST income £3.1m
• MONEY ADVICE TRUST income £19.9m
• TS TRUST income £533k
• GIVEDIRECTLY UK income £4.4m
• DEEN TRUST INTERNATIONAL income £512k

Side by side with its peers

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