Michael and Lesley Bennett Charitable Trust

Analysis

Michael and Lesley Bennett Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in June 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2026, Michael and Lesley Bennett Charitable Trust reported income of £42k and spending of £53k, spending 126% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2026, income fell from £86k to £42k (-51%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income dropped by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Michael and Lesley Bennett Charitable Trust sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 58th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St Edith Hall (£42k), Hope UK and Bangladesh (£42k) and Forman Hardy Charitable Trust (£42k).