Beaconsfield Festival of Lights Trust

Analysis

Beaconsfield Festival of Lights Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Beaconsfield. It was registered in October 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Beaconsfield Festival of Lights Trust reported income of £20k and spending of £18k, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £6,660 to £20k (+199%), an average of +32% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 216%. Over the whole period it spent 86% 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, Beaconsfield Festival of Lights Trust sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Holme Hale Playing Field Mangement Commitee (£20k), Culm Voluntary Car Scheme (£20k) and Carpenter Box Charitable Foundation (£20k).