The C S Lewis Foundation (UK)

Analysis

The C S Lewis Foundation (UK) is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxford. It was registered in June 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, religious activities and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03206850). It says it provides advocacy/advice/information, sponsors or undertakes research and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The C S Lewis Foundation (UK) reported income of £83k and spending of £95k, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £27k to £83k (+202%), an average of +32% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 123%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The C S Lewis Foundation (UK) sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tree of Life Talmudical College (£83k), God Central Church, Harlow (£83k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Holy Trinity with Saint Mark, Stockton-On-Tees (£83k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.