The Lidbury Family Trust

Analysis

The Lidbury Family Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in December 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 August 2025, The Lidbury Family Trust reported income of £123k and spending of £139k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £62k to £123k (+100%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2024, when income rose by 172%. Over the whole period it spent 171% 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 Lidbury Family Trust sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Laufer Charitable Trust (£123k), Plum Layton Charitable Trust (£124k) and Avon and Somerset Constabulary Benevolent Fund (£123k).