Bennett Pain Charitable Trust

Analysis

Bennett Pain Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Maidstone. It was registered in March 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and disability, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending February 2025, Bennett Pain Charitable Trust reported income of £39k and spending of £63k, spending 164% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from February 2021 to February 2025, income grew from £31k to £39k (+23%), an average of +5.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to February 2024, when income rose by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 212% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Bennett Pain Charitable Trust sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Madizon Community Trust (£39k), Giving Hope Torfaen (£39k) and Portland Foodbank (£39k).

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.