Birmingham Stock Exchange Benevolent Fund

Analysis

Birmingham Stock Exchange Benevolent Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Birmingham. It was registered in October 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending September 2025, Birmingham Stock Exchange Benevolent Fund reported income of £18k and spending of £27k, spending 151% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income grew from £16k to £18k (+9.5%), an average of +2.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 142% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Birmingham Stock Exchange Benevolent Fund sits at the 41st percentile: it is larger than about 41% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Church of Grace International (£18k), The Cynthia Dickinson Charitable Trust (£18k) and Hope in Mozambique (£18k).

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.