Registered charity · Gloucestershire

The Ernest Cook Trust

The Ernest Cook Trust is a registered charity (number 1146629) based in Gloucestershire. Latest income £6.3m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

0 trustees
Income £6.3m (2025)

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No individual trustees are listed on the register.

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does: Education/training
Where: Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website: www.ernestcooktrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: The Ernest Cook Trust
Registered: 2012

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£6.3m£10.0m
2024£6.2m£8.9m
2023£5.9m£8.9m

Earlier years

2022£10.0m£6.6m
2021£5.4m£5.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

SUCH CHARITABLE EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY THINK FIT

Grants received

4 grants · £3,550,641 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £1,900,000
The National Lottery Community Fund · £1,500,000
Aurora Trust · £132,000
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £18,641

Most recent

Aurora Trust £132,0002025-11-13
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £1,900,0002020-09-28
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £18,6412020-04-01
The National Lottery Community Fund £1,500,0002019-06-29

Board analysis

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

incomespending£6.3m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

1.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 7.8 in 2021

53 from 34 in 2021

EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details

Registered charity number: 1146629
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 12/01/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/05/2013 as amended on 09 Feb 2023
Companies House: Company number 07907411 · Active
Contact on the register: 01285712492 · hello@ernestcooktrust.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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