The Bedford Memorial Trust

Analysis

The Bedford Memorial Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Norwich. It was registered in September 1999, 27 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 2025, The Bedford Memorial Trust reported income of £54k and spending of £55k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £40k to £54k (+35%), an average of +7.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 154% 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, The Bedford Memorial Trust sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Huntly and Margery Sinclair Charitable Trust (£53k), Purley and Coulsdon Clubs for the Elderly (£54k) and Redruth Community Association (£53k).