A J Bennewith Charitable Trust

Analysis

A J Bennewith Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Surrey. It was registered in May 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and religious activities, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, A J Bennewith Charitable Trust reported income of £53k and spending of £46k, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £40k to £53k (+32%), an average of +7.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 35%. 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, A J Bennewith Charitable Trust sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Andrew, Radcliffe (£53k), Bethel Reformed Baptist Church (£53k) and The Jubilee Institute, Rothbury (£53k).