THE KING'S TRUST GROUP COMPANY

Registered charity 1200643 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PRINCE'S TRUST GROUP COMPANY

Prince's Trust Group Company plays a vital role in encouraging a common sense of purpose and strategy across The Prince's Trust Group of charities by sharing best practice, raising funds, making charitable grants, demonstrating the Group's shared impact and managing shared risks in the UK and overseas.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE THROUGH ALL CHARITABLE MEANS AND FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE MENTAL, SPIRITUAL, MORAL AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEM TO DEVELOP THEIR FULL CAPABILITIES AND TO ENABLE THEM TO BECOME RESPONSIBLE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY, SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED BY ANY MEANS PERMISSIBLE UNDER CHARITY LAW; AND TO ADVANCE SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The consolidated Group reported a surplus of £1.2m for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £22m and total expenditure of £20.8m. The Group held total funds of £10.3m at year-end, comprising £9.8m restricted and £0.5m unrestricted. The Parent entity, KTGCo, held £0.5m in unrestricted funds, representing 11 months of core operating costs against a 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.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dermot Finch — Chief Adviser to the Group Board and Chief Operating 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).

• His Highness the Aga Khan — “The King’s Trust Group is deeply grateful to the late Prince Karim Aga Khan, through whose philanthropy and leadership we have been able to …” (source page)
• HSBC Holdings Plc — “As our Global Founding Corporate Partner, HSBC’s investment in our programmes has supported more than 15,000 young people across India, Mala…” (source page)
• The Varkey Foundation — “The Varkey Foundation’s mission is to change lives through education. The Foundation’s support of our education programmes in the UK and int…” (source page)
• The King Charles III Charitable Fund (KCCF) — “KCCF’s long-standing core support of our work enables us to respond to emerging priorities and deploy funding where it will have greatest im…” (source page)
• The Britton Family Foundation — “The Britton Family Foundation is a longstanding supporter of our work in the US, reaching hundreds of young people over the past five years.…” (source page)

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (90% 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: 15.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Jane Brittain CBEchair
• James Charles Robinson
• Jeremy Green
• Julie Bishop
• Michael Parrish Henry
• Shabir Randeree CBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas Segun Ilube CBE

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

Operates in: Australia · Canada · New Zealand · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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 income £63.9m
• THE KINGS THEATRE TRUST LIMITED income £5.7m
• KINGSWAY CLC TRUST income £7.4m
• KINGDOM CENTRAL income £99k
• THE PRIVY PURSE CHARITABLE TRUST income £903k

Side by side with its peers

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